In Hebrew, the Shehechiyanu is pronounced, "Barukh ata adonai elohenu melekh ha'olam, shehecheyanu, v'kiyimanu, v'higiyanu la'z'man ha'zeh." Another prayer—called the Hamotzi—is said before ...

It is a Jewish prayer called Mi Shebeirach and it is basically a prayer for health and courage, and it says, "May we have the courage to make our lives a blessing," he explained.

A hospital has officially opened a new prayer space for Jewish patients and staff, offering them a place to observe Shabbat - the Jewish day of rest.

I was many weeks into reciting kaddish, the traditional Jewish prayer of mourning, for my father when I realized I did not know how to pray. Oh, I knew the words and the melodies for the daily ...

American synagogues have a new prayer for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Mural of Dr. Martin Luther King's march in Selma, with Dr. Joshua Heschel, a Jewish civil rights activist, pictured below the ...