The concept of “blessings” gets tossed around widely and casually these days. After all, what is social media without a slew of (sincere or ironic) #blessed captions? But in Judaism, blessings are an ...

The book, “When Rabbis Bless Congress: The Great American Story of Jewish Prayers on Capitol Hill” highlights the rabbis who have given prayers in front of Congress since the Civil War. While both the ...

Joe Buchanan sets Jewish prayers and ideas into country ballads — an unusual combo given the genre's use by Christian bands.

When I worked at a Catholic college, the nuns were forever blessing me, even when I hadn’t sneezed. The nuns’ blessings were like a warm, fuzzy blanket on a cold winter night. During my seven years at ...

A medieval Hebrew prayer book that has been held by Paris-based Alliance Israélite Universelle for more than 150 years will be offered at a Sotheby’s auction in New York after the two holiest holidays ...

Hanukkah is the Jewish Festival of Lights. While not as overtly holy a Jewish holiday as Passover or Yom Kippur, Hanukkah has been embraced by the Western world as an often blue-and-white answer to ...