We also find it particularly distressing to discuss attacks upon the layout and usage of the Western Wall prayer area, which was recently closed due to missile threats, at this time. Yet even with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. THE TEMPLE MOUNT, which Muslims call the Haram al-Sharif, is holy to both Jews and Muslims and has been a flashpoint since 1967.

Thousands of Jewish families in Hungary receive matzah packages alongside a nationwide call to pray for Israel’s security ...

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 ...

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 ...

(JTA) — When some of Rabbi Mia Simring’s congregants named themselves The Very Narrow Bridge Congregation, they weren’t just referring to the anthemic Hebrew song “Gesher Tsar Meod” or the teaching ...

(JTA) — MILWAUKEE — “Beautiful prayer!” the woman shouted out from the floor of the massive Fiserv Forum. The delegate to Donald Trump’s coronation was responding to a benediction led by Leora Levy, a ...

Members of Seattle's Jewish community continued to pray for strength and healing Wednesday in the aftermath of last week's shootings at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle offices. About 700 ...

About two dozen people gathered Sunday morning around the gravestone of Helen Zimmerman to say a prayer for her and roughly 100 other Jewish patients buried decades ago at the former Central Islip ...

Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. (JTA) — When some of Rabbi Mia Simring’s ...