Judaism


Yom Kippur through the centuries: The prayer books that preserve centuries of Jewish history

Dr. Chaim Meir Neria, curator of the Haim and Hanna Salomon Judaica Collection at the National Library of Israel, with one of the two volumes of the Lisbon Mahzor recently received by the Library.

Israel tore itself apart on Yom Kippur - then October 7 reminded us of our collective 'we'

The Orthodox Jewish group of Rosh Yehudi sets up a gender partition during a public prayer for Yom Kippur, on Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, September 24, 2023

The other confession: Yom Kippur as the night journey of the soul

IN THE early morning before Yom Kippur, 2024, prayers for forgiveness are recited at the Western Wall and elsewhere in the Jewish world.