What America's founding father Benjamin Rush can teach about challenging the denial of Jewish identity and history and ...

The Texas Senate has passed a pair of bills to introduce religion in public schools. One would require the Ten Commandments ...

The main feast should be on Friday, and it's advisable to schedule it for morning or early afternoon, or to "connect" it with ...

Reaping the rewards for keeping Shabbat requires one to work during ... on Friday evening it is a ברכה לבטלה (a wasted blessing), having been made over a non-occurrence.

a key hymn welcoming the Sabbath. But this service also leads with a prayer for the people of Gaza, composed by Rabbi Brant ...

Services and Sermons is a free service for churches and other faith-based groups. Entries may be edited to fit space. The ...

[1] Many Jews stand for at least the first half of the prayer over wine, the kiddush, that precedes the Shabbat meal. The first part of the kiddush is a quote from the Torah that states God ...

They say the Al Hanissim prayer on Shabbat and not on Friday (it is said in Grace after meals and in the Silent Prayer on Friday everywhere else). They read the Torah reading for Purim on Shabbat ...

Sometimes, on Sabbath, I like going to the Tree of Life Synagogue and praying for the 11 fellow Jews who were killed there in ...

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