Yom Kippur 2024 and Sukkot are almost here! Yom Kippur and Sukkot's dates are based on the Hebrew calendar and vary each year in the secular calendar. Learn about the history of Yom Kippur and Sukkot, ...

Maybe “celebrate” isn’t quite the right word. Broad City‘s Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer experience the Jewish date of atonement, Yom Kippur, which requires fasting from sundown on September 22 to ...

In Sholem Aleichem’s short story, “The Yom Kippur Cantor – Someone to Envy,” a pauper known as Meylekh the Cantor dies immediately after neilah, the last prayer on Yom Kippur. According to Jewish ...

But Thursday's (September 16) virtual standstill in Israel - captured by Reuters drone video - is in fact an annual affair as the country marks Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

This week, a video of the late renowned figure, Rabbi Dov Ber Soloveitchik, speaking about the emotional experience of the days leading up to Yom Kippur, was uploaded onto YouTube. The short clip, ...

Some in the Jewish community observed Yom Kippur with a call to action Thursday. They marched to the Brooklyn Bridge, blocking the entrance, in a protest against the war in Gaza. CBS News New York's ...

Yom Kippur is a Jewish holiday in which people ask for forgiveness. It's marked by fasting and abstaining from things that give pleasure and comfort. Yet, "Yom Kippur is the happiest day on the ...

Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, is a solemn holiday for Jewish people. The holiday usually falls during September or October, or during the Hebrew month of Tishrei. Those who observe Yom Kippur ...

Players all over the country ache to make plays. Ache, like inside their bones. Jacob Hillyer is a third-year wide receiver. He had a painful drop in the first quarter that would've kept Iowa's first ...

At Yom Kippur, Israel grinds to a halt. For 25 hours, schools, restaurants and businesses shut down, roads empty out as driving is prohibited, and there are no buses, no trains, and no planes. Known ...

Heavily armed Israeli forces escorted large groups of Israeli settlers as they stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Wednesday, for the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Spokesman of the Islamic ...