Every year, during the month of Elul, if not before, cantors return to these ancient Aramaic words in reverential search of meaning and inspiration, for they possess a power beyond any others in our ...

Although you are not sure why, you don’t want to be late for Kol Nidre. As the sun is going down, there you are in the car, even running a yellow light or two, hurrying toward the shul, temple, rented ...

Whoever you are, whatever your year has been, the community proclaims: Anu matirin lehitpallel im ha-avaryanim. Tonight, we permit ourselves to pray together. Next Wednesday evening, Jews across the ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio - As dusk settled over the Shaker Lakes Nature Center on Wednesday evening, the quiet of the surrounding woods framed a gathering inside the center’s main building, where one ...

For cellist Robert Deutsch, the pleading and mournful melody of the Kol Nidre prayer has resonated throughout his life. As part of the High Holy Day services in the synagogue he attended as he ...

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 ...

The High Holy Days are a time of joy, reflection, repentance and renewal. Here are the Yom Kippur services for Palm Beach synagogues. Sept. 29: Yom Kippur Eve, candle lighting, 6:50 p.m.; Kol Nidre ...

If American Jewish popular culture is any indication, Kol Nidre is the one prayer American Jews happen to know well. Over the years, they’ve encountered it on long-playing records, like those produced ...

I read with much interest, the recent action of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, and that of my dear friend and teacher, Prof, Mordecal M. Kaplan, in reference to the substitution of the ...

Next Wednesday evening, Jews across the world will file into synagogues. Some come every week; others only once a year. Some arrive with their mahzor (festival prayer book) in hand, others with ...