Sacrifice did not begin as a divine instruction. It began as a human response to vulnerability. Faced with forces beyond control—weather, fertility, illness, loss—human beings reached for a way to ...

Congregation Shaarai Shomayim in Lancaster began the new year with a new prayer book that reflects the trend of Reform Jews returning to traditional rituals in their worship, according to Rabbi Jack ...

In 1925, the Supreme Muslim Council published a guide to the Temple Mount for tourists that said the site’s “identity with ...

We live in the buckle of the Bible Belt,” said Beth Israel Congregation's leader. “We just have to be grateful for the ...

Standard Jewish prayers for the government, writes a scholar of Judaism and technology, omit the essential players in any democracy: the people. This Shabbat, like every Shabbat, synagogues around the ...

(JTA) — The proportion of American Jews who pray on any regular basis is down sharply from a decade ago, according to a new poll of American religion by the Pew Research Center. In 2014, 45% of Jewish ...

(RNS) — Some of my favorite malapropisms have happened in synagogues during worship. For example, there was the bar mitzvah kid several years ago who stood up to give his speech, thanking everyone ...

Jews in communities far from Israel gathered at synagogues this weekend for their first Shabbat services since Hamas militants attacked Israel, igniting an ongoing war. Rabbis led prayers of peace and ...

Unlike many Jewish communities across the Soviet Union, the Jews of the Caucasus managed to preserve their identity. Shabbat ...

The nation’s House of Representatives on Monday rose to its feet in support of Labor’s most senior Jewish MP has he recited ...