The most solemn time in the Jewish calendar, the High Holy Days, will bracket the Sept. 11 anniversary, adding extra emphasis on security and greater reflection on living with violence. Rosh Hashana ...

Reading the Torah, there is no doubt about motherhood’s important role in Jewish literature and life. Women are not, however, expected to place motherhood ahead of their own well-being. For example, ...

Rituals can mark time and space, create new identities, and connect people to something bigger. Rituals aren’t meaningless actions. They can mark time and space, create new identities, and connect ...

“I think it’s the job of every teacher or leader to take Torah and translate it to our time and place. Connect heaven and earth — that’s it. It’s not an easy job but that’s our job. We have to know ...

Flight attendants on an Alaska Airlines flight to Los Angeles on Sunday interpreted an elaborate prayer ritual by Orthodox Jewish men onboard as a security threat and locked down the cockpit, airline ...

DALLAS — Last summer, Bob Bonomi’s priest handed him a prayer book and told him, “I think you’d like this.” “I looked at the book and thought, oh, this is nice,” Bonomi recalled. “But the results have ...

MONROEVILLE (KDKA) -- The Lord's Prayer, which is said at the beginning of every borough council meeting in Monroeville, is now causing a controversy. The ACLU is threatening to file a lawsuit unless ...

(The Conversation) — Recent generations of Jewish women have looked to reinvent rituals marking the most meaningful moments in their lives, especially childbirth and motherhood. Women are not, however ...