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 ...

Jews in communities far from Israel gathered at synagogues this weekend for their first Shabbat services since Hamas militants attacked Israel, igniting an ongoing war. Rabbis led prayers of peace and ...

I grew up praying to a god in a language I did not understand. In particular, as an observant Conservative Jewish American (that is, “Conservative Jewish, not “conservative, Jewish”), I grew up ...

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 ...

England’s chief rabbi composed a prayer for a “complete and swift recovery” for King Charles III following the king’s cancer diagnosis. Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis posted the text of the prayer in ...

Almost immediately after the horrific Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023, most Orthodox Jewish congregations began the practice of saying additional Tehillim (Psalms), usually chapters 121 and 130, after ...

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is a time meant for celebration and self-reflection. The holiday, which begins this year at sundown on Friday and ends at nightfall on Sunday, is a joyous occasion ...

What is the modern-day lure of a holiday centralized on a prayer for rain? Both obvious and extremely non-obvious thoughts entered my mind as I was driving home recently on I-76 in the latest ...

(JTA) — The Israel-Hamas war has elicited a chorus of celebrity responses, from Bono’s in-concert callout to Pete Davidson’s somber monologue on “Saturday Night Live.” Now one Grammy-winning ...

Jewish students gathered to pray for unity outside of the Memorial Union in Tempe on Thursday and called on other universities to do the same. Putting on tefillin is typically performed in synagogues ...