Yom Kippur: Kol Nidre – the prayer of everyone

Some arrive with their mahzor (festival prayer book) in hand, others with nothing more than a memory of a parent or grandparent’s voice. All will be united by one haunting moment: Kol Nidre.Before Yom ...
The Forward

‘The rabbi who was late to Kol Nidre’ (folktale)

Sign up for the Yiddish Brief, a bissel of all things Yiddish, brought to you weekly by our Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter. This story, which is translated from the ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

After a bomb threat interrupted Kol Nidre, this congregation kept praying on the streets of Manhattan

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 ...
WDSU

New Orleans cantor reflects on faith and recovery after Hurricane Katrina

CITY’S. LIFELINE RIGHT UP. COME ON, MAN, WHEN HURRICANE KATRINA BARRELED TOWARD NEW ORLEANS, CANTOR JOE COLEMAN FACED AN AGONIZING DECISION WHEN TO LEAVE. WHAT TO PACK? BECAUSE YOU HAD NO IDEA HOW ...