Posts Tagged: kol nidre
Kol Nidre: A Call for Jewish Unity
It can be claimed that no single day in the Jewish liturgical calendar is as clearly meant to showcase the unity of the Jewish people...
Kol Nidre and the White Fire of the Iran-Deal Discourse
JNS.org - The High Holidays are here, reaching their crescendo with Yom Kippur’s Kol Nidre prayer, made famous by Al Jolson and Neil Diamond in “The Jazz...
Gentile Heartthrob Harry Styles Wants You to ‘Fast Well’ This Yom Kippur
Harry Styles wants everyone to "fast well" this Yom Kippur. The non-Jewish teen-pop-sensation is now taking his fascination with Jewish culture one step further, tweeting...
Where Jazz Met Kol Nidre
In 1927, The Jazz Singer ushered out the era of silent cinema with Jack Robin's emotional rendition of Kol Nidre. The film's profound ...
Thoughts From the UK’s Chief Rabbi on Yom Kippur 5773
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the supreme moment of Jewish time, a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgement. At...