The actual prayer itself says we are judged as whos going ... Though Yom Kippur is a day of judgment, it is also a day of forgiveness and renewal. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, in reality, are just ...

(Mass Appeal) - We're in the throes of the Jewish High Holiday season with Rosh Hashannah happening last week and Yom Kippur beginning this Friday evening. Rabbi Yakov Wolff, Outreach Director at ...

That day is about people putting things right with God through prayers and sacrifice. Yom Kippur is a day to reflect on the past year and ask God's forgiveness for any sins. Instead of work or ...

A time of prayer, the holiday ... "The purpose of Yom Kippur is to effect individual and collective purification by the practice of forgiveness of the sins of others and by sincere repentance ...

Those that have not are in many cases limiting attendance to members only, making in-person prayer inaccessible ... about the forgiveness and repentance themes of Yom Kippur.

(JTA) — Facebook CEO Marc Zuckerberg in a post-Yom Kippur message on his social network asked forgiveness for the misuse of Facebook in the past year. He posted Saturday night on his personal ...

It is marked at the start by the blowing of the shofar (a ram’s horn trumpet) and signalling the start of the ten days of penitence, prayer and introspection culminating in Yom Kippur.