The goal of Shabbat is to take time away from continually creating and instead foster understanding, build bridges within our diverse community, and really see one another.

The first Shabbat following October 7th, a survivor of the Nova Music Festival, Tomer Weiner, decided to shut off his phone, ...

Amid tragedy, communities creatively honor Simchat Torah, blending celebration with remembrance to uphold tradition while ...

There are many kinds of floods in the world. The sages say that the flood in Noah’s time was meant t ...

Standard Jewish prayers for the government, writes a scholar of Judaism and technology, omit the essential players in any ...

A fascinating 19th-century version, recited in English, calls on God to aid ... In October 2016, I composed a prayer to be said on the Shabbat before an election. Rather than request aid ...

Shabbat, parenting and sacred spaces. In “Amidah (As Angels Stand – In Stillness),” a poem on the silent prayer, Milgraum writes: How angels stand, in stillness and in awe. The author is a ...

Mohammad Sabahi succumbed to injuries at a local hospital after he was shot by a gunman after the Friday prayers, said the governor of Kazeroun, Mohammad Ali Bekhrad, on Friday. He said that the ...

He was explicitly denied permission to participate in and lead Shabbat services for his campus-based Chavurah prayer group, which he helped found. He was told that he could instead attend services ...

And it’s important to remember the reality into which we will speak our prayers. Consider Psalm 121:1-2. In the ESV translation, it begins, “I lift my eyes up to the hills.” Notice the “h ...