Here are the year’s most notable picture and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Jennifer Krauss Jennifer Krauss ...

NEW HANOVER COUNTY — A bid to swap a day off after the Super Bowl for the day off on Yom Kippur failed to gain approval in the eyes of the New Hanover County school board last week. The New Hanover ...

The Washington Post’s new right-leaning opinion editor fired at least half a dozen staffers — some of whom learned of their terminations while observing the Jewish high holy day of Yom Kippur — ...

Now the same parents who tucked their children into bed on Yom Kippur must send them to school under police protection. The same rabbis who led prayers must calculate whether enough guards will show ...

This Yom Kippur should have been a day of quiet reckoning. Instead, outside Manchester’s Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation, a man used a car and a knife to turn worship into carnage. Two congregants — ...

At least 56 pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested last Thursday, when over 1,000 protesters blocked traffic in a march across the Brooklyn Bridge. The demonstration, held on Yom Kippur, the Day ...

We’ve known something like this would happen for years. But that didn’t make it less shocking when it happened. After attacks on Jewish shops, schools and synagogues across Europe, it felt like a ...

At least two Jewish worshippers were killed and three others seriously injured in a car ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in the English city of Manchester on Yom Kippur, the holiest day ...

Five rockets were fired from the northern Gaza Strip at the coastal city of Ashdod on Wednesday evening during Yom Kippur, in a barrage later claimed by the Hamas ...

MANCHESTER, England >> Two people were killed today when a man drove a car into pedestrians and stabbed a security guard in an attack at a synagogue in England where worshippers were marking Yom ...

MANCHESTER, England — At least two people were killed when an assailant drove a car into pedestrians and stabbed a security guard near a synagogue in England where worshippers were marking Yom Kippur, ...

Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish faith, is being celebrated on Wednesday, Oct. 1. Yom Kippur is the day of atonement following the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. It involves followers of the ...