The most solemn and holiest of Jewish holidays is being observed. Yom Kippur began on Wednesday, Oct. 1, and ends the evening of Thursday, Oct. 2. It takes place in either September or October, but ...

Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish faith, is being celebrated on Wednesday, Oct. 1. Yom Kippur is the day of atonement following the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. It involves followers of the ...

Over 3,900 film artists, including some of Hollywood’s most celebrated names, just signed a boycott of Israeli cinema institutions. They claim this is a principled stand. I call it what it is: a ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Tomorrow night, along with Jews across America and around the world, I’ll be heading to my synagogue to begin observing Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement.

The holiest Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur, begins at sundown on Wednesday, Oct. 1, described as the Day of Atonement where fasting, prayer and repentance will take place for 25 hours. While Americans ...

Two students at Syracuse University in New York are being charged with hate crimes after being accused of tossing a bag of pork into a Jewish fraternity home during a celebration for the Jewish ...

Two Syracuse University students have been charged with burglary as a hate crime after one of them was alleged to have thrown a bag of pork into a Jewish fraternity house as people gathered to observe ...

Two Syracuse University students are facing hate crime charges after allegedly tossing a bag of pork into a Jewish frat house during a Rosh Hashanah celebration. The incident occurred around 6 p.m.

Harvard is on track to add three tenured professors to its ranks in Jewish Studies to address a series of retirements and faculty vacancies that threatened the program’s future. Of the University’s 10 ...

The political and cultural tumults of today call to mind the words of the great Jewish intellectual Milton Himmelfarb in 1967. In the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day War—when the Jewish people ...

It's Rosh Hashana, also known as the start of the Jewish New Year. The celebratory holiday lasts two days, starting at sunset on Monday, Sept. 22, and continuing through the evening of Wednesday, Sept ...