Watch the crowds: A few hours before the start of the Yom Kippur fast, crowds arrived at the Western Wall in Jerusalem to say prayers of forgiveness and break vows. Netanyahu led a prayer for the peace of IDF soldiers 

Beitar Illit man, 49, was stopped at Romanian border after Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage and taken for military service; family has lost contact; 3 other pilgrims arrested

As Yom Kippur approaches, scholars, therapists and Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s mother explore why we pray, why Jewish prayer engages body and community, and why people often turn to a higher power precisely when they feel most helpless