Jewish liturgy can feel archaic or demanding, but its oldest words still have something to say to our most contemporary struggles, writes the host of the “Thoughts and Prayers” podcast. Several years ...

Congregation Shaarai Shomayim in Lancaster began the new year with a new prayer book that reflects the trend of Reform Jews returning to traditional rituals in their worship, according to Rabbi Jack ...

(RNS) — Some of my favorite malapropisms have happened in synagogues during worship. For example, there was the bar mitzvah kid several years ago who stood up to give his speech, thanking everyone ...

Standard Jewish prayers for the government, writes a scholar of Judaism and technology, omit the essential players in any democracy: the people. This Shabbat, like every Shabbat, synagogues around the ...

Handwritten calendars, prayer books, and testimonies at Yad Vashem show how Jewish life and tradition endured during the ...