Congregation Shaarai Shomayim in Lancaster began the new year with a new prayer book that reflects the trend of Reform Jews returning to traditional rituals in their worship, according to Rabbi Jack ...

Explore the significance of the Acheinu prayer, a heartfelt plea for the release of captives in times of communal distress.

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 ...

JERUSALEM — Tens of thousands of people gathered at the holiest Jewish prayer site in Jerusalem on Tuesday for the traditional priestly blessing prayer. The “Birkat Cohanim,” or Cohen’s blessing, is a ...

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 ...

The proportion of American Jews who pray on any regular basis is down sharply from a decade ago, according to a new poll of American religion by the Pew Research Center. In 2014, 45% of Jewish adults ...

The beautiful little synagogue was filled to capacity,” the Tupper Lake Herald reported on February 12, 1915. “Many were there who had known Mr. Cohn for the past twenty years — old Adirondack ...

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 ...

Syrian-American Rabbi Youssef Hamra leads the first Jewish group prayer in Syria since the 1990s, in the Ifrange Synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Damascus's Old City. A security guard provided by ...

(JTA) — The proportion of American Jews who pray on any regular basis is down sharply from a decade ago, according to a new poll of American religion by the Pew Research Center. In 2014, 45% of Jewish ...