Iceland Jews to celebrate with lone sukkah in Reykjavik, after nearly 100 gathered for High Holidays JNS was the first news outlet to tour a brand-new, larger Jewish community center in the works in the Icelandic capital. Dave Gordon Oct. 16, 2024
Lamenting, loving, leveling: A spiritual pathway through this year’s Jewish holidays With all of our differences, have we done enough to make sure that we are encircled—not divided but together as one peoplehood? Rabbi Avi Weiss Oct. 15, 2024
US, world leaders issue Yom Kippur messages Pope Francis, who has called for a ceasefire to the fighting in the Middle East, did not mention the High Holidays. Oct. 11, 2024
Harris ‘unwavering’ about Israel’s security, she says in High Holidays pitch to Jewish voters “I will never stop fighting for the release of all the hostages, including, of course, the seven American citizens, living and deceased, who are still held,” Harris said. Andrew Bernard Oct. 11, 2024
Days of awe: A time for hard choices America’s “both-sidesers” have been afforded the perfect opportunity to achieve moral clarity and choose to become a force for good. Rabbi Moshe Hauer Oct. 11, 2024
Pressed on its silence about Jewish holidays, UN wishes ‘happy, peaceful Yom Kippur’ The United Nations has issued regular greetings and congratulatory messages on a host of other religious holidays but has been conspicuously silent about Jewish ones. Mike Wagenheim Oct. 11, 2024
Guide for Yom Kippur 2024 Fasting times, prayer schedules and customs for the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. Oct. 11, 2024
On Yom Kippur, the Jewish establishment should come clean Jewish activists told them, warned them and begged them to defend the community from media bias and anti-Israel educators. Charles Jacobs Oct. 10, 2024
Full text: Biden holds High Holidays call, says Jewish leaders must be more progressive "Without an Israel, every Jew in the world’s security is less stable," the U.S. president said. "It doesn't mean that Jewish leadership doesn't have to be more progressive than it is, but it does mean it has to exist." Oct. 9, 2024
