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) — Rabbi Jules Harlow, a liturgist who edited what became the standard prayer book used in North American Conservative synagogues for a quarter century, died Monday. He was 92. “Siddur Sim Shalom ...

I have produced a recognizable body of scholarship on ancient Jewish and Christian prayers and hymns. During the formative period of biblical scholarship in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth ...

In the Hebrew month Elul, which usually coincides with the beginning of September, Jews the world over began preparation for their most High Holy Days. Beginning with Rosh Hashanah and ending with Yom ...

When the Hebrew words felt empty, a rabbi suggested thinking of it as “Wow! Please? Thank you." By Jodi Rudoren As part of “Believing,” The New York Times asked several writers to explore a ...