LITTLE ROCK — It's been 122 years since Little Rock's Jewish population socialized in the building once known as Concordia Hall, but the building in the River Market still holds a special place in the ...

The concept of “blessings” gets tossed around widely and casually these days. After all, what is social media without a slew of (sincere or ironic) #blessed captions? But in Judaism, blessings are an ...

CARBONDALE – The Carbondale Historical Society celebrated the area Jewish community by accepting a plaque from Agudath Sholom/Society of Peace honoring Jewish servicemen, along with a painting of the ...

Jewish legal tradition teaches that we should recite 100 blessings every day. This presents an opportunity and a challenge. How might I fill up my quota today? The numbers start adding up if I pray in ...

Michael Baror, deputy ambassador at the Israeli embassy in Kenya (with watering can), plants a tree at the Ramogi Institute of Advanced Technology in Kisumu, Kenya. Photo by Ryan Torok With the ...

A bronze plaque noting that Pesach Rabinowitz died on Aug. 6, 1919, was one of many that once lined the walls of a Far Northwest Side synagogue. Each plaque hung alongside a light bulb that would be ...

Besides spontaneous prayer, Judaism has a whole set of prayer formulas especially geared toward men: what we should want to say and strive for. So, in the Widdui, no confession of sins like: ...

Italian politicians and Jewish leaders have condemned the vandalizing this week of four tiny memorial plaques embedded in sidewalks in front of apartment buildings where Roman Jews were living when ...