Yom Kippur

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 2: Members of the public and congregants seen as Police and other emergency responders attend the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, where multiple were injured after stabbing and car attack on Yom Kippur, on October 2, 2025 in the Crumpsall suburb of Manchester, England. Greater Manchester Police said they were called to the scene shortly after 9:30 AM, when a witness said the assailant drove a car at people and then stabbed someone. Police then shot the suspected attacker. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Two Killed in Synagogue Stabbing Attack on Yom Kippur

The suspect was shot by police and believed to have been carrying explosives.

Tom Sanders

Gunman Kills 2 In Alleged Failed Attack on German Synagogue

Local media reports a Molotov cocktail or grenade was thrown into a cemetery; one suspect said to be arrested after fleeing the scene in a car.

Jamie Ross

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SOMETHING BORROWED

How Christianity Co-Opted Yom Kippur to Explain Jesus’ Death

It is largely glossed over that early Christians used Yom Kippur to explain both why it was that people needed saving, and how the death of Jesus could save other people.

Candida Moss

High Holidays

Fasting to Feast: A Yom Kippur Story

Our columnist remembers her family’s traditional break fast meal and their signature Hungarian baked fish dish.

Mimi Sheraton

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Never Forgotten

Candidate Didn’t Know What Auschwitz Was

An education official running in Canada made a penis joke about Auschwitz and then apologized—saying she wasn’t aware it was a concentration camp.

Gideon Resnick

Online Atonement

Creative Cures for Your Yom Kippur Boredom

Many Jews find it hard to get through High Holiday prayer services without yawning. But this year, some are using online culture to create new ways of staving off boredom, writes Sigal Samuel.

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Yom Kippur

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