Thousands of Jewish worshipers at the Western Wall recited a special prayer Thursday for the return of hostages held by Hamas, during the traditional priestly blessing ceremony held at the site on ...

Thousands of people attended the traditional priestly blessing event at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on Wednesday. Traditionally, Jewish pilgrims make their way twice a year to the ...

May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace. Or you might remember it from ...

The Torah describes the conclusion of Aaron's service in the Tabernacle inauguration: "Aaron lifted his hands towards the people and blessed them. He then descended from [the altar where he] had ...

Thousands of Jewish worshippers gathered at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall for the traditional priestly blessing prayer on Thursday. The "Birkat Cohanim", or Cohen's blessing, is a ritual dating back to ...

Yesterday was the very first day that I attended a synagogue service ever since the ban on attending was implemented more than two months ago. It happened during the Priestly Blessing. “Birkhat ...

Tens of thousands of people gathered at the Western Wall for the traditional Priestly Blessing. The worshippers – estimated by the office of the rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites in Israel at ...

Its words are the oldest of the Torah ever found and the earliest artifact of Jewish liturgy we have in physical form, some 500 years before the Dead Sea Scrolls. “It mounts by gradual stages from the ...

Tens of thousands took part this morning in the second Priestly Blessing ceremony during the prayers for the Passover holiday held at the Western Wall Plaza. The ceremony was attended by the rabbi of ...

As we approach Purim in just a few weeks, there is a profound connection between the garments of Ki Tetzaveh and the masks and costumes we will soon wear. In the Book of Esther, God’s name is never ...