A Passover problem vexed Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan in the first half of the 20th century. He felt that the Haggadah had grown outdated in modern-day America. And then he did something about it: he wrote ...

She and her husband, the financier B. Gerald Cantor, amassed one of the largest private collections of Rodin artworks, donating much of it to museums around the world. By Sam Roberts Iris Cantor, an ...

Cantor Fitzgerald, the former firm of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, has long been an afterthought on Wall Street. Now it is having its best year ever. The investment bank and financial-services ...

Carlos Portugal Gouvêa, a former visiting law professor at Harvard Law School, was arrested on Oct. 1 after firing a BB/pellet gun near the Temple Beth Zion during its late Kol Nidre service. Carlos ...

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — On Kol Nidre, we sing for our lives. At the minyan where I pray, as a lay “shaliach tzibur,” or service leader, I was asked to lead the singing this year, and I was starting to ...

A decision to eliminate the recital of the Kol Nidre formula from the Yom Kippur night service was taken by the trustees of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, 15 West 86 Street, a ...

WASHINGTON — The Maryland Legislative Jewish Caucus (MLJC), denounces the decision of the Student Government Association (SGA) at the University of Maryland to hold a vote on a resolution calling on ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio - As dusk settled over the Shaker Lakes Nature Center on Wednesday evening, the quiet of the surrounding woods framed a gathering inside the center’s main building, where one ...

Yom Kippur begins at sundown Wednesday, with observant Jews fasting and seeking forgiveness for their sins, with law enforcement being on their customary heightened alert against possible threats to ...

As the Jewish High Holidays come to a close, the Silverlake Independent Jewish Community Center is putting together an immersive art installation, “UnLoose,” to mark the occasion. What to expect: “ I ...

Torah scrolls at a San Diego synagogue. (File photo by Chris Jennewein/Times of San Diego) The solemn Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur in 2025 begins at sundown on Wednesday, Oct. 1, with San Diego-area ...

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 ...