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Jewish prayer books can be found online for anywhere between $12 to $200, but one in New York could be worth thousands. The book belonged to screen icon Marilyn Monroe, and it’s going up for auction ...

The first French-Hebrew prayer book ever to be transcribed into Braille has been prepared by the Jewish Braille Institute of America for a blind young woman of Paris, it was announced today by Mrs.

Before Hannukah, many have dubbed the lull in holidays as "Jewish Book Month." With so many excellent Jewish novels to ...

(JTA) — When some of Rabbi Mia Simring’s congregants named themselves The Very Narrow Bridge Congregation, they weren’t just referring to the anthemic Hebrew song “Gesher Tsar Meod” or the teaching ...

The Montefiore Mainz Mahzor is a rare 14th-century Hebrew festival prayer book that was used during the Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, ...

Fragments of wood and printed paper with Hebrew characters that were discovered during road excavation in Zuelpich, Germany last year have been identified as Jewish prayer books dating to the 1940s.

Rabbi Harlow’s prayer books, including “Siddur Sim Shalom,” became the standards of worship in Conservative synagogues across North America. By Ari L. Goldman Rabbi Jules Harlow, a liturgist who ...

The Soviet Embassy’s Information Department announced today that a new Hebrew prayer book has been published in Moscow where the first copies have been delivered to the Choral Synagogue. According to ...

CHICAGO — The pages of the Reform Jewish prayer book offer the sacred words that mark life’s milestones, bless eternal bonds and fill the devastating silence when loved ones die. So Rabbi Peter Knobel ...

Of the things Marilyn Monroe is best known for, being Jewish is not on the list. But the impending sale of Monroe’s personal prayer book — or siddur, as it is called in Hebrew — has piqued interest in ...

The chance discovery of a note written in a 15th century Hebrew prayer book fills an important gap in the historical Italian earthquake record, offering a brief glimpse of a previously unknown ...