In case of abuse, After the initial tumult – the death, the burial, the traditional week of shiva – the central Jewish mourning ritual is the recitation of the Kaddish prayer. It has been not ...
The status of the Temple Mount and the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem has become a destabilizing issue in Israel and the Middle East. The demand for the “liberation” of al-Aqsa has become the battle ...
On Shemini Atzeret, the seventh day of Sukkot, Jews read tefillat geshem, an ancient Hebrew prayer for rain, during synagogue services. The prayer beseeches God to bring the Land of Israel enough rain ...
The Babylonian Jewish world of my grandmother has disappeared ... I whisper words, hum psalms, so each vine leaf becomes a package of prayer. — Protect my son. He is in the North.