Yom Kippur is typically celebrated with a day of reflection, prayer and fasting. Followers of the Jewish faith attend ...

For us, Rosh Hashanah is also a time to gather with extended family and celebrate togetherness. Yom Kippur, the second of the High Holidays, is a bit more challenging to make accessible to young ...

What follows is the great Jewish anti-celebration: Yom Kippur. The most important day on the Jewish Calendar, Yom Kippur – or the day of atonement – offers the chance to ask for forgiveness.

They break their fast in the evenings. Yom Kippur is celebrated in September or October in the UK. In 2024 Yom Kippur will begin in the evening of Friday 11 October. Yom Kippur is ten days after ...

Brandeis students, faculty and staff of all faiths and creeds joined the campus’ Jewish community on Wednesday evening to celebrate the end of Yom Kippur by “Breaking the Fast.” Yom Kippur, known also ...

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Discover the diverse New Year celebrations around the world, from the Chinese Spring Festival and Islamic Hijri New Year to ...

Jews around the world are marking the start of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, which celebrates the rededication of the ...

Many who read this did not know him in his lifetime, and will now not get to know about him even after his death, but he is the example of a "quiet Yom Kippur". A quiet Torah that permeates the ...