While "merry" or "happy" before a holiday name would be an appropriate greeting on several occasions, on Yom Kippur it's customary to wish someone a good, easy or meaningful fast. Yom Kippur, the most ...

Have any of you seen the movie Matrix? You can Google the story line if you haven’t, but on Yom Kippur we are like that poor fellow Neo in the movie, who is caught between two worlds, two very ...

“From this Yom Kippur until the next, may [all vows] be deemed absolved, annulled, and abandoned.” Within Jewish communities, there has always been some reticence towards the Kol Nidrei prayer. The ...

This story, which is translated from the Yiddish, is the second in a series of Yiddish holiday tales for children that will run throughout 5785. Read the original Yiddish text on page 24 of this ...

Sunday, Sept. 25, marks the beginning of one of the most important periods of the Jewish calendar. Rosh Hashana, the New Year, begins Sunday night, followed 10 days later by Yom Kippur, the Day of ...

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About 8,000 of the 14,000 Jewish men, women and children liberated from Japanese internment here tonight crowded into seven rooms which had been cleared of beds and furniture and converted into ...

Following Rosh Hashanah, a festive celebration of the Jewish New Year, Yom Kippur strikes a more sober tone. Yom Kippur is the most significant of all the Jewish holidays and marks the end of a 10-day ...