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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Jerusalemite neighborhood of Shaarei Chesed, whose narrow streets can be found between Rechavia and Gan Sacher, has over time becomes one of the most prominent symbols of what is known as the Old ...
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 ...
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Why a forgotten teacher’s grave became a Jewish pilgrimage site
Along Britton Road in Rochester, New York, a brick gatehouse sits across from ordinary homes. Beyond it lies Britton Road Cemetery, its grounds divided into family plots and sections claimed over time ...
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