For months, I had put off this trip to pick up my father’s bimah chair — a seat of honor for a synagogue’s rabbi on the bimah, the podium of the synagogue’s sanctuary. For months I had ...

The second gentleman has often spoken of the brown velour suit he wore at his bar mitzvah. A photo from that day has finally ...

I know this – if we are going to write the next chapter of Jewish life post October 7th, we need our young families not only ...

As part of renovation work, the synagogue was reconfigured to match the Touro’s Sephardic-influenced design, whereby the ...

Dear all, Temple Akiba is so fortunate that each year, Jerry Wiener ascends the bimah so we can fulfill the commandment of ...

Yet, despite the hardships, the people of Metula do not lose hope. They draw on more than 120 years of resiliency. Part and ...

It’s far from rare for rabbis to have baseball memorabilia in their offices, whether it’s signed baseballs or big posters of Sandy Koufax. But Rabbi Jason Bonder, the new senior rabbi of Congregation ...

The discovery this week follows the 2019 unearthing of the Tuscan baroque-style bimah, the synagogue’s central prayer platform, in the same dig by a team of international scholars headed by Jon ...

Julie Benko and Talia Suskauer were among a group of Broadway performers who sang the "Rent" classic at Park Avenue Synagogue.

Rabbi David Maxa, who organized the observance in one of Prague’s 17th-century synagogues, said the moment ‘is not just a ...

The great Jewish Chicagoan, Saul Bellow, wrote in Humboldt’s Gift about Humboldt—a mid-century American poet who was the son ...

The first season of 'Nobody Wants This' on Netflix made its Jews pretty unlikeable. Here's how season two could be a little ...