Congregation Or Ami in Lafayette Hill is looking to redefine the Shabbat experience. “Our Shabbat service experience is designed to be inclusive, relevant, thoughtful, participatory and easily ...
Free Expression: By exaggerating our woes for partisan reasons, politicians on both sides of the aisle threaten to squander America's enduring global superiority. Photo: Shen Hong/Xinhua via ZUMA ...
Why do bad things happen to good people? Or why do bad things happen to me? Dr. Aryeh Dean Cohen paraphrased these questions at an April 5 interfaith dialogue on theodicy or how to reconcile a ...
Rabbi Abner Weiss is looking through the closet that holds his shul. There are two Torah scrolls lying face up on shelves, the gold mechitza curtains are hung against the wall and the mini-weekday ark ...
Mizmor shir l’yom haShabbat—“Let us sing a song to the day of Shabbat,” begins Psalm 92. And we still do, with new music for the Shabbat liturgy written every year. Here are five of the best recent ...
The Jewish people basically invented the desert bacchanal — what party wasn’t taken to the next level by a Golden Calf? But the desert is also where the descendants of Abraham attained their spiritual ...
Rishon Letzion Chief Rabbi Yitzchak YosefYaakov Cohen, Flash 90 In light of the current situation, many halachic questions have been posed to the Chief Rabbi of Israel, the Rishon Letzion Harav ...
When is it kosher to listen to the Beatles on Shabbat? When your chazzan adapts the Friday night service to the melodies of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. STAMFORD, Conn. (JTA) — When is it kosher to ...
At “Big Shabbat,” nearly 3,000 Jews at the Javits Center in Manhattan broke the Guinness world record for largest Shabbat meal.