Yom Kippur

For two of the past three years, Ohio University senior Jessica Segal has spent the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur in Athens. This year, however, she's packing her bags and leaving Athens to spend the holiday with her family.  

At the end of the ten days is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Services for Yom Kippur will be held at Saint Mark’s on Oct. 9 beginning at 10 am A day ...  

The main focus of the liturgy of Yom Kippur is the recitation of the description the sacrificial offerings that were made on Yom Kippur when the Holy Temple ...  

Sir, - "Maverick peace pioneer Abie Nathan dead at 81" (August 28) neglected to mention Nathan's legacy from the 1973 Yom Kippur War. On Yom Kippur, when we ...  

The story of Jonah is read on Yom Kippur afternoon. Though the obvious reason for reading the Book of Jonah on Yom Kippur is its theme of repentance and ...  

The Baal Shem Tov instituted the custom of reciting three additional chapters of Psalms each day, from the 1st of Elul until Yom Kippur (on Yom Kippur the ...  

Seven of the eighteen New-Pharm stores that opened on Saturdays already no longer do so.  

Yom Kippur services are scheduled for October 8 & 9. Adult tickets for services, which includes the Yom Kippur break-the-fast meal, are $45; children under ...  

Rosh Hashanah morning service will be held September 30; Yom Kippur Kol Nidre service will be held October 8; Yom Kippur morning Yizkor service and Yom ...  

The author of the piece is Jewish, but sees no irony in a Yom Kippur service in which G*d is unwelcome. Yom Kippur is, literally, our day of atonement. ...  

But when was the last time the curtain opened upon the day of the Yom Kippur War? Meri Wallace’s new drama, “Yom Kippur,” dares to begin with this historic, ...  

When I was in my 20s, I wrote a novel and sent it to Doubleday. In my hubris, I skipped the editors and sent it directly to the president. She called five days later to tell me she liked it. An editor was assigned and suggested major revisions. I refused  

The Talmud in Tractate Yoma lists the five prohibitions we accept for ourselves during Yom Kippur and Tisha b’Av. As on Yom Kippur, we abstain from eating ...  

Yom Kippur begins the Wednesday before the New England game. Election Day is the week before the Kansas City game. Thanksgiving precedes the Atlanta game. ...  

So did the chairman of the Israeli paralympic delegation, Dani Ben Abu, who was wounded in the 1973 Yom Kippur War but went on to become a surfer and ...