Seth Berkman did not join a prayer group to set Israel policy. When he started attending Shabbat services at Minyan Atara, what drew him was a scene that felt grassroots and authentic. Atara didn’t ...

The Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast is heading into its 10th anniversary, with nine annual breakfasts in Israel and 27 outside the ...

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 ...

When local Jews gather for the 10-day High Holy Days period that begins with Rosh Hashana on Wednesday night, they'll face a jumble of emotions, said Ora Horn Prouser, a Jewish scholar from Franklin ...

(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 ...

The proportion of Jews that rarely if ever pray is far higher than among other religious communities — and on the rise. The proportion of American Jews who pray on any regular basis is down sharply ...

Today, Oct. 7, we mark the first anniversary of an event which horrified anyone with a conscience and altered Jewish history. We are still too close to it to appreciate fully its impact ...

For an entire year, our loved ones, ranging in age from 1 to 90, have been held hostage. Stolen from their homes and from a music festival. Kidnapped into the subterranean tunnels of a US-designated ...

Donald Trump is being mocked by Democrats and critics on social media after he offered to sign what appeared to be a rabbi's prayer book while visiting Jewish gravesites on the anniversary of the ...

Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. Seth Berkman did not join a prayer group ...

(JTA) — The proportion of American Jews who pray on any regular basis is down sharply from a decade ago, according to a new poll of American religion by the Pew Research Center. In 2014, 45% of Jewish ...