Holidays & Festivals

1+ hour, 11+ min ago   (305+ words) National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir ascended the Temple Mount on the eve of Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) and participated in the Mincha afternoon prayer service together with Rabbi Elisha Wolfson, head of the Temple Mount Yeshiva, married…...

2+ hour, 20+ min ago   (197+ words) A man rides his bicycle along a car-free main road during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur in Jerusalem, Monday, Sept. 21, 2026. An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man whips a member of his Hasidic dynasty with a leather strap as a symbolic punishment…...

5+ hour, 31+ min ago   (312+ words) The Jewish High Holidays end with Yom Kippur, widely regarded as the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Also called the Day of Atonement, the holiday is an opportunity for Jewish people to seek repentance and reconciliation with God. This…...

1+ hour, 4+ min ago   (34+ words) Students in Acre and Sderot yeshivas mark the end of the holiest day of the Jewish year with singing, dancing and prayers for mercy. Watch: Yeshiva students end Yom Kippur with song and dance...

1+ hour, 38+ min ago   (680+ words) (The Conversation) — Each Passover, as Jewish families start the Seder meal, a child asks, “Why is this night different from all other nights?” And each Yom Kippur, as worshippers attend the last prayers of the day, they might well ask:…...

2+ hour, 38+ min ago   (416+ words) G’mar chatima tovah. Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism, began yesterday, Sunday, Sept. 20, and ends today, Monday, Sept. 21, at nightfall. It's been one week since Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, ended, marking a series of…...

4+ hour, 12+ min ago   (478+ words) Document: Rowr / iStock / Getty Images HOLLYWOOD (CNS) - Laugh Factory Hollywood will be among the organizations conducting free Yom Kippur services Monday, with a two-hour service set for 11 a.m. and a 90-minute Neilah service at 6 p.m. Donations will not be accepted. Instead, the…...

3+ hour, 22+ min ago   (575+ words) (OSV News) ─ As the Jewish community marks the holiest day of its year, a U.S. Catholic bishop is extending his "warmest wishes," while urging Catholics to reject antisemitism and recall the "deep spiritual bonds" between Jews and Catholics. Yom Kippur, the…...

4+ hour, 59+ min ago   (177+ words) Jonathan Cahn unpacked the biblical significance of the Day of Atonement, when the high priest alone could enter behind the veil into the Holy of Holies with the blood of the sacrifice....

7+ hour, 4+ min ago   (99+ words) Israel Yom Kippur The Herald Journal - Manage Subscription (Pay Your Bill, Vacation Request, Update Account Info) A Jewish man, wrapped in a prayer shawl, walks beside the Old City walls in Jerusalem during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Monday,…...