Each month, Jewish young adults from UWS Base provide company, conversation and Torah learning to those in custody at the city’s most notorious jail. (New York Jewish Week) — Growing up in the Bronx ...

(JTA) — I often take solace in prayer: It gives me the opportunity to express my deepest longings to God, even if immediate results are never the goal. As the Israel-Hamas war has worn on, I have ...

After 50 years leading various congregations in prayer as a Hazzan, an ordained Cantor, I am at a crossroads. Does God hear my prayers? Must I recite every prayer line-by-line, even though, admittedly ...

(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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. View of the Temple Mount (Al Aqsa mosque) in Jerusalem Under the new policy, Jewish visitors may enter the site with a single ...

The Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley hosts a prayer vigil Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, at the Jewish Community Center in Allentown in response to the Hamas attacks in Israel. The Jewish Federation of ...

Beneath overcast skies Sunday, a group of more than a dozen Jewish Long Islanders visited an often-overlooked 16-acre site on Eastview Avenue in Central Islip to pray together. The property is the ...