NEW YORK (JTA) — On his way to converting to Christianity, philosopher Franz Rosenzweig attended Yom Kippur services and was so moved that he decided to remain Jewish. One look at the most famous ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jews around the world will gather after sundown today to hear the haunting melody of the Kol Nidre prayer during a service that marks the start of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year. Kol ...

Of all the Jewish prayers, Kol Nidre is one of the most recognizable—and certainly the most controversial. Neil Diamond intoned it in order to penetrate the stone heart of his cantor father at the end ...

Summer has barely begun and already I am thinking of Kol Nidre. If you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail, I guess, and I am a rabbi and a liturgist to boot, so when I see the sedra ...

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 ...

Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Benjy Brackman had a couple short hours before sundown Wednesday to transform a hotel conference room into a synagogue for the evening services, Kol Nidre, that begin Yom Kippur.

This past Yom Kippur, my father, an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor, surprised our family by recounting a wartime Kol Nidre observance that stirred his soul. It was erev Yom Kippur, September 26, 1944.