“I feel that the best way to start the season is by honoring Jewish tradition,” Avdija announced before the game. Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija sat out his first preseason game ...

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Kol Nidre, the introductory service of Yom Kippur, took place in the Klausen Synagogue on Friday night, ending a hiatus that lasted more than 80 years and encompassed both the murder and ...

New York Jewish Week via JTA — Shortly after 6 p.m. on Friday, as the members of Town and Village Synagogue welcomed Yom Kippur by gathering for the Kol Nidre service, an anonymous man called ...

(JTA) — Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija sat out his first preseason game with his new team on Yom Kippur, saying that his priorities had shifted after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 ...

I don’t compare my own prayer practice to that of Rabbi Heschel, but I had a similar experience this Yom Kippur. Wherever I looked in the liturgy, I found myself wondering how many Gaza ...

And now, we pause in the intensity of Yom Kippur to recite Yizkor. Amidst the awareness of the fragility of our lives, amidst all the asking for forgiveness, amidst the atonement, praying that ...

When I was in second grade, we lived on Long Island. My Zayde had taken me to a Knicks game where they gave away team basketballs. I took home that ball and started to dribble and drive. One major ...

New York City-based writer Chelsea Jacobson, 28, shared how she would be getting her caffeine fix during Yom Kippur - the most holy day in the Jewish calendar. She held up a caffeine suppository ...

(AP Photo/Oded Balilty) An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man swings a chicken over his kid’s head in Bnei Brak, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024 as part of the Kaparot ritual a day before the Jewish holiday of ...

Kol Nidre, the introductory service of Yom Kippur, took place in the Klausen Synagogue on Friday night, ending a hiatus that lasted more than 80 years and encompassed both the murder and suppression ...