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 ...

The text is straightforward but dry. It’s a little like singing a rental agreement. Yet “Kol Nidre,” the liturgy for Yom Kippur eve, is one of the most spiritually powerful experiences Jewish worship ...

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 ...

The haunting strains of Kol Nidre, part of the Yom Kippur liturgy, is for many Jews the sound of the High Holy Days. People who rarely set foot inside a synagogue will attend services next week, ...

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 ...

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.

We’re back for Week 2 of our High Holy Day songfest as promised, this time in two parts. Part One includes Bob Dylan, Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt and Joe Cocker, plus the legendary Cantor Moishe Oysher, ...

In the mid-nineteenth century, a young Jewish boy in Germany was kidnapped and taken to a monastery. His parents, frantic, ran to the courts. The priests denied any "kidnapping"; they claimed that ...

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 prayer for the ...