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Preparing to lead the evening service on Kol Nidre, columnist Edmon J. Rodman takes a short drive to the resting place of Al Jolson for some inspiration and checks in with a real live cantor for ...

The solemn Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur in 2023 begins at sundown on Sunday, Sept. 24, with San Diego-area congregations holding Kol Nidre services. Yom Kippur means “Day of Atonement” in Hebrew.

In a sad and divisive move, a few Conservative clergies, including the leader of New York City’s Congregation Ansche Chesed Jeremy Kalmanofsky, initiated a boycott of the prayer for the State of ...

Flowers and stars line outside the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh in 2018 after a shooter opened fire during services. (AP /Gene J. Puskar) On the holiest night of the Jewish year earlier ...

When Schwartz arrived in New York from Israel at the age of 25 with Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot to work at the Park East Synagogue, the congregants were enchanted with his watch.

The Cantor tried his best but it just didn’t do it for me. I found it particularly awkward to stand and sit when indicated. Eventually I just decided to stay seated.

It would have felt neglectful of my duties as cantor to play a recording of my father singing the Kol Nidre up until this year. For 40 years I have chanted Kol Nidre with my father’s voice in my ...

Kol Nidre are the first words of a special legal formula that is recited at the beginning of this service and chanted three times. READ MORE: Yom Kippur 2019: How do you observe Yom Kippur?