My translation: Praised are you, Lord our God, ruler of the world, who performs wondrous deeds for our family in this season.

Well, we have come to the end of the 53 (gematria of the word GAN – meaning garden) portions of the Torah. This week we start all over again. I once asked some first graders why we keep reading the ...

Jerusalem is a spiritual compass — its root letters — shin, lamed, and mem—coming together to mean shalem (wholeness) and ...

With the freeing of the living captives and continued demands for the return of 24 bodies still held in Gaza, worshipers ...

The Conservative congregation hung a “bring them home now” sign out front on behalf of the hostages. Rabbi Jesse Olitzky added the “Acheinu” prayer for redeeming captives to the weekly Shabbat service ...

The memorial ceremony began with a moment of silence in the presence of tens of thousands of participants and a live broadcast to millions of viewers in hundreds of community screenings around the ...

The Greenbergs’ approach is simple: give families the tools—kosher food, Shabbat and holiday observance, Hebrew classes—so ...

For the next 491 days, with rare exceptions, the only people Sharabi saw were other hostages and Hamas militants—the same parties that have remained front and center in the viewfinder of Jewish ...

The movie played its U.S. theatrical premiere at Movies of Delray in December and will return for its last American theater showings Oct 10 to 17.

Unlike the weekday Amidah, which contains nineteen blessings, the Amidah for Shabbat contains only seven. Why seven? The Talmud (Berachot 29a) explains that these seven blessings correspond to the ...

This fall, a group of organizers in New York are planning to break a world record: 3,000 guests gathered at the Javits Center for what they hope will be the largest Shabbat dinner ever held. The event ...

The Montana Jewish Project, a statewide community center headquartered in Montana’s first synagogue, held its third annual Pride Shabbat at the Temple Emanu-El in Helena. In Jewish culture, Shabbat is ...