Yom Kippur

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Man throws rock into window of Gdansk synagogue during Yom Kippur services
Yossi LempkowiczEuropean Jewish PressSeptember 20, 2018
A man hurled a heavy rock into the window of the women’s gallery of a synagogue in Gdansk, Poland, during prayers at the end of Yom Kippur, the Dy of Atonment, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
Prepping for the High Holidays. Credit: Pixabay.
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Israeli police thwart Arab terrorism in Jerusalem on Yom Kippur
September 20, 2018
Just after the start of the holiday, a 26-year-old Arab from Qalandiya rushed at a Jewish man, knocking him to the ground, and ran towards police officers waving what is reported to be a screwdriver.
Thousands pray for forgiveness at a Selichot service, prior to the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sept. 16, 2018. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
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High Holidays 2018
Millions of Jews worldwide pause to observe Yom Kippur
Israel HayomSeptember 18, 2018
As holiest day of the Jewish calendar begins on Tuesday night, Israeli life grounds to a halt.
Chassidic men pray on the beach on Sept. 17, 2018 in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod as part of the High Holiday ritual of Tashlich, where believers symbolically cast off their sins into the water. Typically done on Rosh Hashanah, the tradition can take place up until Hoshanah Rabbah, the seventh day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.
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Elad HakimSeptember 18, 2018
‘Teshuvah’ should be mandatory for everyone (including Joe Scarborough)
All people, by virtue of being human beings, engage in wrongdoing at some point. The question is what are they going to do about it?
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High Holidays 2018
Faith and fasting: A look at the practice ahead of Yom Kippur
Maayan Jaffe-HoffmanAugust 9, 2018
Food abstention and restrictions are ancient practices whose purpose and benefit span across the three Abrahamic faiths—Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
A Jewish worshipper at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem at the end of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays. Israel comes to a standstill for 25 hours during the holiday, when Jews traditionally fast and Israelis are prohibited from driving. Photo by Flash90.
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