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 ...

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 ...

There is no more haunting, or moving, hymn sung on any Jewish holiday than Kol Nidre, which was chanted Sunday night to usher in the 24-plus hours of prayer and fasting referred to as the Day of ...

“From this Yom Kippur until the next, may [all vows] be deemed absolved, annulled, and abandoned.” Within Jewish communities, there has always been some reticence towards the Kol Nidrei prayer. The ...

I read with much interest, the recent action of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, and that of my dear friend and teacher, Prof, Mordecal M. Kaplan, in reference to the substitution of the ...

Last year, as the Jewish Day of Atonement approached, I received an e-mail from my brother-in-law in New York, who is both an ardent Yankee fan and avid Web surfer. At the time, he sent me a link to ...

For cellist Robert Deutsch, the pleading and mournful melody of the Kol Nidre prayer has resonated throughout his life. As part of the High Holy Day services in the synagogue he attended as he ...

Nearly 400 people were praying at Town and Village Synagogue on the first night of Yom Kippur when the threat came in. Shortly after 6 p.m. on Friday, as the members of Town and Village Synagogue ...

When Rabbi Naomi Levy conducted Kol Nidre services this year, her congregation numbered 200,000, stretching from Canada to Colombia and from Japan to Norway. Watching online on their computers were a ...