Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yom Kippur, known as the holiest day in Judaism, is swiftly approaching after Rosh Hashanah kicked off the Jewish High Holy Days ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year in Judaism and follows Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The name of the holiday ...

(RNS) — Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, admittedly sounds very serious. Besides its foreboding name, the day involves fasting and talk of sins and, in its original biblical rituals, animals ...

The High Holy Days and Penitential Period are upon us, marking the beginning of the Jewish New Year, highlighted by Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, our Day of Atonement. As a practicing psychiatrist for ...

There is nothing more quintessential to a Jewish celebration than food. It is a religion and culture with eating and drinking baked in — there are even specific prayers, recited weekly on Shabbat, ...

Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, begins Sunday. Also known as the Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur offers a time for Jews to reflect on sins or wrongdoings. Many Jews refrain from ...

Yom Kippur, known as the holiest day in Judaism, is swiftly approaching after Rosh Hashanah kicked off the Jewish High Holy Days last weekend. Also referred to as the “Day of Atonement,” Yom Kippur is ...