We are grateful for the lovely profile on our immensely talented chazzan, Hillel Tigay (“The Rock Cantor,” Sept. 21). But we want to set the record straight on one matter. Here’s what went down mere ...

Cellist Julian Schwarz made his performance debut at the age of nine, playing composer Max Bruch’s Kol Nidrei at the ...

Every year, during the month of Elul, if not before, cantors return to these ancient Aramaic words in reverential search of meaning and inspiration, for they possess a power beyond any others in our ...

A growing list of synagogues are live-streaming their Yom Kippur services online, bringing the Day of Atonement's sights and sounds to tens of thousands of Jews. Plenty of American Jews are well known ...

If American Jewish popular culture is any indication, Kol Nidre is the one prayer American Jews happen to know well. Over the years, they’ve encountered it on long-playing records, like those produced ...

I’ve been spending the morning pacing around the house singing Kol Nidre while my two-year-old son Jacob toddles about playing with his toys. Just like every year, it seems, the High Holidays arrive ...

A decision to eliminate the recital of the Kol Nidre formula from the Yom Kippur night service was taken by the trustees of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, 15 West 86 Street, a ...

Moshe Kobre closed his eyes and swayed slightly back and forth Monday as he sang the Aramaic words in a deep baritone. The 29-year-old Kobre traveled from his home in Israel two weeks ago to pray at ...