For 11 years, a website asked visitors a single question: What do you want to ask forgiveness for? The website, AtoneNet, posted the responses — no names attached — for public perusal, and before Yom ...

During Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, the Jewish community of Laramie will gather for a day of reflection, fasting, prayer and spiritual renewal. This year, Yom Kippur begins at ...

Yom Kippur is the holiest day in Judaism and the most important day in the Jewish calendar. Also known as the Day of Atonement, the holiday marks the completion of the Ten Days of Repentance that ...

Beginning at sunset today, Jews celebrate Yom Kippur, the holiest day of their year. Many Jews commonly spend the day in prayer in their synagogue. According to Leviticus 16:29 in the Bible, using the ...

Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, is a day of fasting, prayer and repentance. In 2025, Yom Kippur begins at sundown on Wednesday, Oct. 1, and ends at nightfall on Thursday, Oct. 2.

We have survived a year full of emotional demands, hills and valleys of national and political tension, and Israel’s turmoil, abandoned hostages, and thousands of civilians, on both sides, taken from ...

A colleague recently reminded me that during the Vietnam War, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel told a journalist that he could not pray because whenever he opened a prayer book, he saw images of children ...

Torah scrolls at a San Diego synagogue. (File photo by Chris Jennewein/Times of San Diego) The solemn Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur in 2025 begins at sundown on Wednesday, Oct. 1, with San Diego-area ...

Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, is known as the Day of Atonement. The holiday is observed with a nearly 26-hour fast and five distinct prayer services. Yom Kippur marks the end of the 10 days ...