Yom Kippur News

Fifty-eight-year-old Barbara Rader had some run-ins with her male supervisor in her new job with the federal immigration service in Orange County, but said she was finally getting good reviews from everyone until one day in September 2009, when the supervisor summoned her to the director's office.

The U.S. House of Representatives Armed Service Committee tripled President Obama's request for missile defense collaboration with Israel and sought to include the United States in Iron Dome development.

According to the Talmud, the world was created on the first day of Tishri, the seventh month of the Jewish calendar.

Here's a look at what you need to know about the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur , the Day of Atonement.

Our sages tell us that the death of tzaddikim is just as tragic as the breaking of the Ten Commandments tablets; they also teach us that the death of tzaddikim atones for all of Israel, just like Yom Kippur.

Then PM told German chancellor Brandt 40 years ago: Creating impression that solution can be foisted on Israel pushes off peace.

They "assert these things with a violence bordering on mental aberration," complained one aggrieved gentleman in a letter to this newspaper a century ago.

Goldberg Variations a novel by Susan Isaacs is a story of identity-one in Gloria Goldberg changed her name to Gloria Garrison, an estranged grandmother, has built a successful fashion business out of Santa Fe, Gloria invites her three grandchildren in New York City for a weekend in which she proposes to choose one of them to take over her business.

Conversely when we do act, we advance our own self-interest and that of Israel. In the case of the Yom Kippur war, we supplied and resupplied Israel and raised the alert status of our nuclear forces to fend off the Soviets; not only did Israel survive the war but also Egypt's defeat helped dislodge Anwar Sadat from the Soviet orbit and make peace ... (more)

The Interior Ministry has decided to extend Daylight Savings Time until the end of October.

The Old Testament is just as much Sacred Scripture to the Catholic as is the New Testament.