Whoever you are, whatever your year has been, the community proclaims: Anu matirin lehitpallel im ha-avaryanim. Tonight, we permit ourselves to pray together. Next Wednesday evening, Jews across the ...

Relix will stream a series of spiritual and musically inclined High Holiday services this week. The free streams include the Kol Nidre and Yom Kippur morning service slated to take place at New York’s ...

Every year, during the month of Elul, if not before, cantors return to these ancient Aramaic words in reverential search of meaning and inspiration, for they possess a power beyond any others in our ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features. Squeezing himself ...

If American Jewish popular culture is any indication, Kol Nidre is the one prayer American Jews happen to know well. Over the years, they’ve encountered it on long-playing records, like those produced ...

Frederic Ramsey audio recordings, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler ...

Of all the cultural practices associated with American Jews, the Kol Nidre appeal, I used to think, has got to be among the most ill-considered, let alone poorly timed, of rituals. No sooner do ...

It seems a long way off, but before we know it, summer swelter will give way to autumn cool, and we will be back in synagogue listening to Kol Nidre. The roots of Kol Nidre lie in this week’s parashah ...

The prayer of the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, is Kol Nidre. The hauntingly beautiful melody of this prayer for forgiveness inspired Max Bruch to write his version for cello ...

Next Wednesday evening, Jews across the world will file into synagogues. Some come every week; others only once a year. Some arrive with their mahzor (festival prayer book) in hand, others with ...