Rabbi Uri Mordechai Lipsh, a Shliach in Bnei Brak, Israel and veteran educator, passed away on Purim, 5785. He was 58 and ...

"I was very surprised by the fact that most of the respondents overwhelmingly still had very positive feelings towards the Orthodox Jewish community," one of the authors told JNS.The post ...

who conducted a 2013 study for the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism on the use of instruments in Conservative synagogues’ Shabbat and holiday services. “What we found universally is ...

They may pray, study the Torah and visit the synagogue. Some of the things Jews are prohibited from doing during Shabbat include handling money, working and driving.

Sivan Dabush, too, kept Shabbat for the first time in her life ... now includes 14,000 study partners joined in pairings, known in Hebrew as hevrutas, between secular and haredi Israelis.

The bar or bat mitzvah, marking a Jewish child’s entry into adulthood, is a culmination of months of advance planning and study ... planned bar mitzvahs this Shabbat at Kehillat Israel, a ...