Plenty of American Jews are well known for attending synagogue twice a year, on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Two (or three) days too much? You’re in luck: Forgiveness can be found from the comfort of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Benjy Brackman had a couple short hours before sundown Wednesday to transform a hotel conference room into a synagogue for the evening ...

(This post was written before the war started. More to come on that.) Now that we are concluding the Tishrei Holidays, I have a great deal to digest. As a Jewish educator and former day school teacher ...

We are grateful for the lovely profile on our immensely talented chazzan, Hillel Tigay (“The Rock Cantor,” Sept. 21). But we want to set the record straight on one matter. Here’s what went down mere ...

If American Jewish popular culture is any indication, Kol Nidre is the one prayer American Jews happen to know well. Over the years, they’ve encountered it on long-playing records, like those produced ...

This Yom Kippur, a religious war broke out in Tel Aviv. The extremist national religious group Rosh Yehudi requested a permit from the city to conduct an Orthodox Kol Nidre service with a mechitza (a ...

A decision to eliminate the recital of the Kol Nidre formula from the Yom Kippur night service was taken by the trustees of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, 15 West 86 Street, a ...

Kol Nidre live streams offer forgiveness with a click A growing list of non-Orthodox synagogues are bringing the sights and sounds of Yom Kippur services to tens of thousands online By Ben Sales 11 ...