Tag: Yom Kippur

The majority of the cases dealt with people who fainted, were dehydrated, or felt severely ill due to the fast.

Yom Kippur’s focus on forgiveness highlights humility, fallibility, soul-searching faith, compassion, thoughtfulness, being considerate, accepting responsibility and magnanimity.

Pain has a purpose.

Jihadi propaganda hits London.

Pave a way to experience the days leading up to Yom Kippur in a totally new way based on ancient understandings passed down throughout the ages with Rabbi Shlomo Katz today on The Soul of Israel.

Yom Kippur queries.

Many believe that Kol Nidre was created in response to the conversos’ plight and their need to nullify their conversion vows.

“As part of the operation, IDF and Border Police forces swept the village, raided the terrorist’s home and blockaded the village."

At issue is the agreement with the city of Bnei Brak that prohibits digging and other work on the Light Rail tracks during the Sabbath and on Yom Kippur.

What exactly are we trying to accomplish through our fasting and lengthy prayers on Yom Kippur?

The Hijri, the day Muslims mark the beginning of the Islamic new year and where the only celebration is a day off from school,...

Prayer is to the human spirit what exercise is to the human body.

Rabbi Wolpo said in his testimony that according to Jewish law the evacuation of settlements in the Land of Israel is a worse sin than eating pork on Yom Kippur, since it endangers the lives of millions of Jews.

The JPost couldn't help themselves, despite their attempt to come across as the rational side in this debate, when they referred to Amar as the "so-called chief rabbi of Jerusalem."

March of the Living implores March for Racial Justice to change the date and so as not to exclude Jews.

You could finish Ma'ariv with the minyan, then even do Kiddush Levanah, if the sky isn't overcast, change into your leather shorts and hit the festival.

"We must not allow the extremists harm our shared life," Motran, who had seen his store windows be crashed twice in recent weeks, announced. "Jaffa welcomes to all the people of Israel."

In the fall of 1996, after then Prime Minister Netanyahu had ordered the opening to the public of the Kotel Tunnel, PA Chairman Yasser Arafat called for a violent response--on grounds very similar to the case being made today by the Arabs, namely Israeli sovereignty.

It is difficult to ignore the influence of Jewish tradition on Muslim rituals in general and Ramadan in particular, in a kind of upping the spiritual ante on the part of the illiterate security guard who started a new religion.

'the log shows that Chabad of Irvine only used 95 chickens and lost $24 in connection with the Kapparot Ceremony in 2014.'

When the holiest person, the High Priest Aaron, goes into the holiest place, the Holy of Holies, on the holiest day, Yom Kippur! Rabbi Mike Feuer joins Rabbi Yishai on ‘Spiritual Cafe’ to talk about the holy vestments of the Temple!

'The only way to know those facts is real shimush, seeing what is actually happening in the field.'

Using the great, eye opening Pew study of 2013, Cohen points out that the signs of Jewish life in intermarried Jewish families are fast diminishing.

The terrorists purchased weapons from a dealer in Samaria before committing the shooting attack.

75 years after the obliteration of Kiev’s 33,771 Jews - in less than 36 hours – Ukrainian and Israeli officials teamed up to host an evening in their memory.

More than a dozen new babies were born in Haifa's Carmel Medical Center on Yom Kippur. Mazel Tov!

Paramedics with Magen David Adom were very busy during Yom Kippur.

Three Iranian citizens were caught abroad with Israeli passports during Yom Kippur.

Anti-Semitism reared its ugly head in the heart of the holy city on the holiest day of the Jewish year.

IDF forces prevented Arab terrorists from infiltrating and attacking a Jewish town in Samaria on Yom Kippur night.