Posts Tagged: jewish prayer
‘Deeply Traumatizing’: Jewish Voice for Peace Argues in Resurfaced Booklet Jews Shouldn’t Write Hebrew Liturgy
The anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) argued in a newly resurfaced 2021 booklet that Jews should not write Hebrew liturgy because hearing the...
Israeli Govt and Court at Odds Over Jewish Prayer at Temple Mount
Israel reaffirmed on Sunday a long-standing arrangement with Muslim authorities that prevents Jewish prayer at Jerusalem's Temple Mount, pushing back against a lower Israeli court that questioned...
Why Did God Expel the Jews From His Home?
As we start returning to our synagogues, it is important to remember that our temporary expulsion was not simply an unintended consequence of a biological...
The Spirituality of Song
With Ha’azinu, our Bible portion this week, we climb to one of the peaks of Jewish spirituality. For a month, Moses had taught the people. He had...
Group Prayer and Yom Kippur
Earlier this week, I read an op-ed written by a former UK prison warden, who gave his thoughts on the rising problem of radical Islam in British prisons....
Hebrew Prayers Are Lost in Translation
We will spend more time than usual in synagogues these coming weeks, and with that, a problem arises. One of the biggest challenges for most Jews is the...
Pew Study: US Religious Belief Down, Jewish Daily Prayer Up
JNS.org - While America has seen a decline in religious belief and behavior in the last seven years, the majority of Americans are still religious, according...
Pope Francis Joined by New York Rabbi and Cantor at Interfaith 9/11 Memorial Service
JNS.org - Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove and Cantor Azi Schwartz of New York City’s Park Avenue Synagogue on Friday joined Pope Francis as well as leaders from...
Archaeologists Uncover Remains of Nazi-Burned Great Synagogue of Vilna
JNS.org - A team of Israeli and Lithuanianhas uncovered the underground remains of the Great Synagogue of Vilna using ground-penetrating radar technology. According to the Israel Antiquities...
Leader of World’s Largest Islamic Group to Visit Temple Mount
JNS.org - The secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, an umbrella group representing 57 Muslim countries based in Saudi Arabia, will visit the...
Brit Milah Held in Terror Attack Synagogue; ‘In Your Bloods You Shall Live’ (VIDEO)
In a profound display of faith in the face of carnage, the family of a newborn infant on Wednesday held his circumcision ceremony at the...
Yom Kippur: Entire Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron Will Be Open to Jews
In a sudden turn of events, Jews will be allowed to hold Yom Kippur services this year at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in...
The New York Times’ Favorite Rabbis
In the midst of the Gaza war New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Jodi Rudoren lauded Rabbi Levi Weiman-Kelman, founder of her liberal Reform synagogue...
Temple Mount Jewish Prayer Could be Allowed by New Rules
JNS.org - Israel's religious affairs ministry is preparing new rules that would allows Jews to pray at the Temple Mount. The rules would reverse...
