The main feast should be on Friday, and it's advisable to schedule it for morning or early afternoon, or to "connect" it with ...

The importance of sharing meals is recognised across cultures, from the Jewish Shabbat meal to the fast-breaking Iftar meals ...

What America's founding father Benjamin Rush can teach about challenging the denial of Jewish identity and history and ...

One of the most significant changes is regarding the Purim Seudah. Ordinarily, the meal is held in the afternoon and extends into the night. However, since it is Erev Shabbat, one must finish the main ...

Yet, while there has always been a need to compel many of us to take off on Shabbat, nowadays we also have an opposite phenomenon, i.e. Jewish men who desist from productive labor during all seven ...

More than 200 Jewish service members and their families gathered in Surfside, Florida, last week for the 18th Annual Military ...

Jews in Lower Merion, have called for the local bagel store to lose its kosher certification because its proprietor supported ...

We must recognize that maintaining our Jewish identity while building bridges with our neighbors creates a strong and necessary foundation for survival and hope.

The tenth and eleventh weekly Torah readings from Exodus, Vayakkel (35:1-38:20) and Pekekudei (38:21-40:38) deal with the construction of the Tabernacle during Moses’s time. Many readers think the ...

Instead of giving my 13-year-old daughter a generational Hebrew name, a few years ago, while attending Hebrew School at ...

For schools like Pitt, this is the first year they’re on the report card so, right now, it’s about getting a baseline of where things are,” she said.

On November 6th, I embarked on a life-changing journey to Uganda with six other students from de Toledo High School. Our ...