Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jewish mothers have created ways to celebrate childbirth with rituals old and new. Pal Pillai/AFP via Getty Images Reading the ...

From ancient Persia to today, Purim shows how prayer, unity, and courage shape Jewish history and identity.

Reading the Torah, there is no doubt about motherhood's important role in Jewish literature and life. The Hebrew Bible is replete with stories of women who feel incomplete without children, although ...

Jewish liturgy can feel archaic or demanding, but its oldest words still have something to say to our most contemporary struggles, writes the host of the “Thoughts and Prayers” podcast. Several years ...

After 50 years leading various congregations in prayer as a Hazzan, an ordained Cantor, I am at a crossroads. Does God hear my prayers? Must I recite every prayer line-by-line, even though, admittedly ...

(The Conversation) — Recent generations of Jewish women have looked to reinvent rituals marking the most meaningful moments in their lives, especially childbirth and motherhood. Women are not, however ...