Yom Kippur

How Concierge IV Therapy Went From Instagram Trend to Pre-Yom Kippur Hydration Hack

By Jackie Hajdenberg | JTA.org When Sarah Jemal was pregnant with her first child, she couldn’t keep any food or liquids down. Given her risk...

Why Yom Kippur Is My Favorite Jewish Holiday

By Shelly Jay Shore | JTA.org I get a lot of odd looks when I tell people that my favorite day of the Jewish year...
Confessions featured eight local Jewish comedians. From left: Hedi Sandberg, Mara Feinstein, Joey Friedman, Matilda Epstein, Noah Goldstein, Eric Asker, Michael Greenberg and Yoki Danoff.

Confessions and comedy: Young adults ring in Yom Kippur

Eight local Jewish comedians made confessions at the Rhodeside Grill in Arlington ahead of Yom Kippur as part of the UnKosher Comedy tour. Performing for...

Tashlich and Reverse Tashlich

  Tashlich is the new year ritual of symbolically casting off sins in the form of breadcrumbs into flowing water. Generally it’s done in a...

For Jews with eating disorders, new approaches aim to make Yom Kippur safer

By Ella Rockart Shonna Levin is an Orthodox Jew, but she didn’t spend last Yom Kippur in a synagogue. The activist in Brooklyn, N.Y., had...

Break the Fast with Italian Jewish Food

By Linda Morel I’m in a mixed marriage. While my family emigrated from the Ashkenazi heartland of Germany and Lithuania, my husband David’s family came from...