Rabbis and liturgists are trying to find ways to honor personal loss and communal grief during Yizkor, the traditional ...

I cannot celebrate my 70th birthday either on Yom Kippur, because of the issur on cake, or on October 7, because my country is in tears, and that's it.

October 6, 1973, marked the beginning of the Yom Kippur War — a conventional war. October 7, 2023, was a pogrom — a ...

On the first anniversary of the October 7 massacre, residents of the 'Gaza envelope' mourn their dead while pledging to ...

When the enemy marched on the gates of the city, it sounded the alarm, rallying troops and calling defenders to battle.

Like America has Pearl Harbor and 9/11, Israel has the Yom Kippur War and Oct. 7, devastating sneak attacks that changed ...

Viduy re-establishes a relationship with G-d when through it we experience our very real vulnerability before the Almighty.

In Talking Points, Esme Murphy focuses on a year of anxiety in the Twin Cities Jewish community, which is also on heightened ...

Rabbi Yosef Wolvovsky of Chabad in Glastonbury talks to Dennis House about Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and how everyone can ...

Why do we feel this way? The answers are manifold, but I will give you some of the main ones: ...

Buffalo's Jewish community is spending time reflecting, after celebrating the Jewish new year, ahead of Yom Kippur and while marking one year since the October 7 attack in Israel.

Mainers with Jewish and Palestinian ties say they are feeling despair and anger after violence in the Middle East intensified ...