On Shemini Atzeret, the seventh day of Sukkot, Jews read tefillat geshem, an ancient Hebrew prayer for rain, during synagogue services. The prayer beseeches God to bring the Land of Israel enough rain ...

A new exhibit at the Museum of the Bible displays one of the oldest Jewish books discovered in Afghanistan, which contains ...

While the Jewish establishment bemoans divisions around Israel, younger Jews are demonstrating that the real crisis is that ...

The Seabreeze Jewish Center in Coney Island held a candlelight vigil and prayer ceremony to send a message of peace and ...

For Jews, Yom Kippur is one of the most important days of the year. But one relatively obscure practice for the holy day is ...

Organizers also led attendees in a reading of the Mourner’s Kaddish, an ancient Hebrew prayer for the deceased. Second-year graduate student Alex Pekerman said attending the vigil helped her ...

Far more ancient written Hebrew texts had been discovered ... the book combines a variety of texts written by different hands, including prayers, poems, and what the museum says is the oldest ...

And in early October, we’re somehow meant to endure a Jewish New Year ... that also sneaks in an ancient formula for living through a spiritual hurricane. “Prayer, charity and repentance ...

Like many Jewish practices, the harvest festival of Sukkot largely takes place at home − meaning families can incorporate ...

The very name of this holiday — “the joy of the Torah,” celebrating the completion of the annual Torah cycle — connotes an emotion we cannot fully inhabit on the anniversary on the Hebrew calendar of ...