On the Saturday night before Rosh Hashanah (Sept. 5), B’nai Torah Congregation in central Boca Raton — a Conservative synagogue — will be renewing the tradition it started last year with a ...

Begin the High Holy Day season with Selichot. The Saturday evening service, before Rosh Hashanah, launches and sets the tone for these holiest days of the calendar. Registration is required and there ...

The Jewish penitential poems and prayers known as Selichot are said every day in the period leading up to the High Holidays, with the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy as a central theme throughout each ...

It was a first in quite some time: The Women of the Wall held a prayer service at the Western Wall and got to worship, sing and even dance at the holiest site in Judaism largely unperturbed. Unlike ...

The Jewish Residents’ Council of Ann’s Choice in Warminster welcomed rabbis Adam Wohlberg and Sam Hollander from Temple Sinai in Dresher for a Selichot service.

President Isaac Herzog participated in the Selichot prayer service at the Western Wall on Saturday night, accompanied by Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites. Upon his ...

As of Saturday night, everyone – including Ashkenazic communities – is now saying selichot (communal prayers for Divine forgiveness) and will continue doing so until Yom Kippur. Motzei Shabbos, I ...

Now is the time of the year when everyone is a bit more careful when they daven. People pray more slowly and are more attentive to the words they are saying. We spend more time in shul each day and ...

Congregation Kneseth Israel, 330 Division St. in Elgin, announces its High Holy Days prayer schedule. Rabbi Margaret Frisch Klein, spiritual leader of the synagogue, explains that Rosh Hashana marks ...

(JTA) — Holocaust imagery interrupted a videoconference on Zoom for some Alabama Jews to say the selichot prayers and prepare for the High Holidays. Some 50 congregants from Montgomery, Auburn, Dothan ...