{"id":622154,"date":"2026-09-20T19:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/622154\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T19:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:06:11","slug":"thousands-of-jews-gather-in-jerusalems-western-wall-for-yom-kippur-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/622154\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Jews gather in Jerusalem&#8217;s Western Wall for Yom Kippur prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jerusalem Post will temporarily pause news coverage on Sunday to observe the 25-hour period of Yom Kippur, with regular coverage resuming immediately following the conclusion of the fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. It is traditionally observed with fasting, prayer, and reflection, as Jews seek forgiveness and spiritual renewal.<\/p>\n<p>As Yom Kippur begins, we are sharing a broadcast of selichot prayers from the Western Wall, allowing readers to follow the prayers from Jerusalem as the fast begins.<\/p>\n<p>We wish all Post readers a gmar hatima tova and an easy and meaningful fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jerusalem Post will temporarily pause news coverage on Sunday to observe the 25-hour period of Yom Kippur,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[277363,85,46,3794,25362,1899,43,15691,41717],"class_list":["post-622154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-high-holy-days","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem","tag-jewish-holidays","tag-judaism","tag-news","tag-western-wall","tag-yom-kippur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}