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"This year is anything but the best of circumstances. This year, the worlds of election politics and Jewish holiday ...

That highest of holy days, Yom Kippur, is nowadays focused on fasting, prayer, and spiritual introspection. But in ancient ...

Until his 70th birthday, Moriah had never been preoccupied with the passing of time or his own mortality. But as he entered ...

A year into this war, the suffering of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians were at the top of my mind this Yom Kippur ...

During Sukkot, Jews across the world dwell in temporary shelters and wave the Four Species in celebration of the harvest ...

Among the texts included in the project and penned in the Ge'ez language, is the Orit, the Beta Israel Torah which includes ...

Tashlich, which means “to cast away” in Hebrew, is the practice in which Jews go to a large flowing body of water and ...

The Klausen Synagogue had not held a Jewish worship service since the Nazis shuttered it and murdered most Czech Jews.

Like many Jewish practices, the harvest festival of Sukkot largely takes place at home − meaning families can incorporate ...

Israeli forces continued counterterror operations in both Lebanon and Gaza, even as soldiers managed to fit in some time to chant Yom Kippur prayers.

Community is vital in Jewish ritual and tradition, and the High Holidays are no exception, a Judaic studies scholar writes.