On the Saturday night before Rosh Hashanah (Sept. 5), B’nai Torah Congregation in central Boca Raton — a Conservative synagogue — will be renewing the tradition it started last year with a ...

Tens of thousands of people participated on Monday night in the last Selichot (penitential prayers) before Yom Kippur at the Kotel (Western Wall). The central selichot service was led by Rabbi Ovadia ...

About 25,000 people gathered for the central Selichot service at the Western Wall on Thursday night, according to the Western Wall Heritage Foundation. The Selichot prayers are recited in the days and ...

CHELMSFORD — A football player charging onto the field without a series of warm-ups. A dancer taking to the floor without stretching. In Judaism, going into the High Holy Days — Rosh Hashanah and Yom ...

A prominent feature of the current Days of Awe is the recitation of Selichot in the early, predawn days of the morning. Ashkenazi Jews began Selichot services on the Saturday night preceding Rosh ...

Selichot, the singular of which (selicha) means "forgiveness" in Hebrew, are penintential prayers and poems that are often recited in Jewish communities starting on the Satuday night before the Jewish ...

Tens of thousands of people visited Jerusalem’s Western Wall overnight on Monday for the final penitential “selichot” prayer services ahead of the Yom Kippur holiday, which begins Tuesday evening. The ...

For the first time since its inception 25 years ago, Women of the Wall, the organization behind the battle to wrest control of Judaism’s holiest site from the Orthodox establishment, will hold a ...

Temple Kol Ami will begin its High Holy Days observances with a Selichot service at 10:15 p.m. Saturday at the synagogue, 8200 Peters Road. Selichot is traditionally a night of intense spirituality ...

Some two hundred worshipers attended a Selichot service this this week in the Iranian capital Iran, according to footage broadcast by the Kan public broadcaster on Friday. The nightly Selichot prayers ...