The Hebrew month of Elul began on Wednesday, and this year, there will be 17 central prayer assemblies for the Israeli public to say Selichot, the Western Wall Heritage Foundation announced in a press ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WILKES-BARRE — Rabbi Eric Mollo of Temple B’nai B’rith took time this week to talk about “Selichot” — the time leading up to the Jewish High Holy Days in preparation for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

More than 50,000 worshippers participated last night (Thursday) in the central Selichot service at the Western Wall Plaza. The event was broadcast live on giant screens at the outskirts of the Western ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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For centuries after the Arab Islamic conquest of Iran, my Jewish community in Iran were the primary source that was retaining and maintaining the country’s musical heritage as music was forbidden in ...