Prayer may be an essential part of Jewish practice, but it is precisely because of its regularity that its inner essence is ...

The English translation of his memoir will be published this coming October 7, on the two-year anniversary of his kidnapping.

Yom Kippur began Oct. 1 at sunset. Here's what to know about the meaning of the Jewish holiday, customs and greetings ...

Yom Kippur will begin Oct. 1at sunset. Here's what to know about the meaning of the Jewish holiday, customs and greetings ...

So these two very important books of prayer represent two different but very important types of prayer: the standardized ...

During a period of deep depression, the Jewish singer and poet Leonard Cohen wrote of stepping “into an avalanche” when ...

France and Saudi Arabia hope to use this year’s gathering of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly and the increasingly horrific war in the Gaza Strip to inject new urgency into the ...

Home to 2.7 million Palestinians, the Israeli-occupied West Bank has long been at the heart of plans for a future nation existing alongside Israel. The model is known as the two-state solution to the ...

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, marks the start period of repentance culminating in Yom Kippur. The holiday is celebrated with special prayers, festive meals, and the blowing of a shofar, or ram's ...

Charlie Kirk, fatally shot on September 10 while he was speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, was for years a strong defender of Israel, while occasionally pressing its leadership with ...