Yom Kippur News

Noting it's never too early for the country's youngest citizens to learn about other cultures, Angelo L. Tomaso vocal music teacher Amy Myers is starting what may become a new tradition at the kindergarten to fifth-grade school.

The Brevard Philharmonic Orchestra will present an adventure in music Saturday at Brevard College's Porter Center when Artistic Director Donald Portnoy conducts the premiere of "Tekeeyah" by acclaimed American composer Meira Warshauer.

Seven hundred years ago in a synagogue in southwest Germany near the Rhine River, the chazzan opened a new machzor on Yom Kippur as he began Kol Nidrei .

The pattern repeats itself: A relatively marginal Jewish organization calls upon the public to hold prayers on the Temple Mount to mark Yom Kippur, Sukkot or, as was the case this week, "Rambam Day" . These announcements win a great deal of attention in the Palestinian and Arab media, of course.

After 30 years of Jewish immigration from Ethiopia, the State of Israel will finally mark the community's flagship festival, Sig'd, in an official ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on Monday.

Jerusalem's simmering embers were stoked again Sunday in a confrontation that broke out between Muslims who barricaded themselves in the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, and Israeli police who came to remove them.

Rob, Hannah and I took turns posing in front of the "Welcome to Egypt" sign as we crossed the border.

The monthly meeting of the Pleasant Valley United Methodist Women was held on Sept.

Several weeks ago, just between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur , I too sat with the multitude of Israel in Leonard Cohen's unforgettable concert .

Fall arrived late this year in Budapest, where I am visiting from Israel, and it is still very warm on Yom Kippur.

Assad Shibli, the 22-year old driver who ran over 9-year old Tal Zino on Yom Kippur of 2007, was sentenced to nine years in prison on Tuesday.

Assad Shibli, who was operating his all-terrain vehicle which struck and killed nine-year-old Tal Zino on Yom Kippur two years ago in the Galilee town of Kfar Tabor, was sentenced on Tuesday to nine years in prison by Nazareth District Court.

' Hevel ," literally a vapor - the transparent, fleeting exhalation of breath - is an unlikely word to sum up the intense period of the Jewish calendar that ends this Shabbat with Shabbat Bereishit.

Bereshit is the scariest parsha in the Torah. It creates responsibility and frames our life's mission.

In the fourth bias incident to hit the Middlesex County Jewish community since Rosh Hashana, about 15 swastikas were found scrawled on a slide at an Edison park.

Jon Gosselin 's getting ready to celebrate a new "plus eight": the eight nights of Hanukkah.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday blamed recent violence at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque on Arab "extremist elements" whom he said spread lies that Israel intended to dig under the holy site.

As families of the Jewish faith across New Jersey gathered to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, a student from the Rabbi Jacob Joseph Yeshiva school was viciously attacked.

Pianist Miriam Brickman and violinist Cora Gordon will perform a recital 7 p.m. at the Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture, located at 4450 Fieldston Road.

The Palestinian Authority has been waging a diplomatic campaign against Israel for the past two weeks over what it terms "provocations" on the Temple Mount.