Berlin schools grant humanists their own holiday

In 1974, Susan Sontag's film Promised Lands , shot in 1973 in Israel during the weeks following the Yom Kippur War, and which might be called an encounter with Israel at war, was panned in the New York Times by a reviewer who objected to Sontag's ...

A new play recently opened in Tel Aviv about a Yom Kippur general shows that nothing has really changed: We are still permitted to do anything, in the army and in civilian life, then and now. Gorodish again? That war again? How much more can we ...

Racked by pain, the 93-year-old rabbi walked shakily to the lectern to give his sermon on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year. Then his spine straightened. His gaze grew firm. "Another Yom Kippur," he said. "Another 500 children of Gaza ...

Exactly 50 days after Yom Kippur, Ethiopian Jews mark the Sigd, a special holiday marking their desire to reach Holy L - see stunning pictures from Jerusalem Sigd event, which showcases diverse Beta Israel community. Ynetnews Sigd is a holiday ...

A 76-year-old former IDF general who blocked the Egyptian army's advance in the crucial opening hours of the 1973 Yom Kippur War is now seeking to push Israel to embrace Cairo and other moderate Arab partners in order to bring peace. The full text ...

On Rosh Hashanah it is written, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed. Who shall live and who shall die, who shall perish by fire and who by water, who by Roman soldier and who by cancer… Created by Ruth Cohen Golmant, the author's longtime friend, ...

WHILE most Jews were sitting in shul on Yom Kippur this year, 27-year-old Gideon Bensen was performing on one of the world's most sought-after stages in Texas. His band, The Preatures, had scored a spot at the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

Andrew Phillips reflects on what Chanukah means to him… When I was 10, I certainly didn't fast on Yom Kippur, and Rosh Hashanah and Pesach were a blur of family, synagogue and long dinners. But Chanukah meant one thing and that was gifts.

For the sin which we have committed before You under duress or willingly. And for the sin which we have committed before You by hard-heartedness. These English words have always appeared opposite the traditional Hebrew text of the viduy ...