Thousands participated on Thursday night in the sixth Selichot prayers at the Western Wall (Kotel) in Jerusalem. During the ceremony, thousands offered a united prayer for the speedy return of the ...

President Isaac Herzog participated in the Selichot prayer service at the Western Wall on Saturday night, accompanied by Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites. Upon his ...

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 ...

(JTA) The quavering sound of the shofar pealed through the small crowd gathered in Hostages Square for an evening of Selichot, the penitential prayers recited in the run-up to the High Holidays. The ...

In her latest project, “Monajat,” the cantor and composer sings prayers for forgiveness with sampled recordings of her late grandfather, a one-time superstar in Iran. Selichot are traditional prayers ...

It was a first in quite some time: The Women of the Wall held a prayer service at the Western Wall and got to worship, sing and even dance at the holiest site in Judaism largely unperturbed. Unlike ...

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 ...

North Shore Synagogue, 83 Muttontown Rd., invites one and all to attend a free evening of song and prayer in celebration of Selichot on Sept. 20., starting at 8:30 p.m. with a musical program by guest ...

The Jewish penitential poems and prayers known as Selichot are said every day in the period leading up to the High Holidays, with the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy as a central theme throughout each ...