also known as the Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Rosh Hashanah, meaning "head of the year" in Hebrew, is the celebration of the Jewish New Year. During Rosh Hashanah ...

12, 2013. JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images Yom Kippur begins Tuesday at sundown and lasts until dark the following day. It's a time set aside in the Jewish calendar for atonement for one's sins and ...

Gov. Ned Lamont wished everyone a ‘happy’ Jewish day of atonement from the roof of the state capital Wednesday. The themes of Yom Kippur “are atonement and repentance,” according to Wikipedia.