Prominent religious leaders in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak said on Thursday that prayers and dance rituals can be held inside synagogues during the Simchat Torah holiday despite coronavirus ...

A free platform presents the Torah, siddur and Tehillim with word-by-word English translation. To mark the new Torah reading ...

One question in the chat caught me by surprise recently. Some 4,000 women had registered for an open class on Parshat ...

Why did Rava say that prayer is just chayei sha'ah, of temporal value? And what exactly was Rabbi Hamenuna's defense for spending so much time in prayer at the expense of his Torah studies? Mind and ...

It is a fitting benediction to end the festival of Simchat Torah and Sukkot, in which three times we are commanded to rejoice. One of the most popular Jewish festivals is Simchat Torah, which falls on ...

Founded in 1915, Congregation Kesser Israel of Portland, Oregon, has played an important role in preserving and strengthening ...

There are five kinds of Kaddish. In this article we will discuss two of them, Kaddish D’rabanan and Kaddish Shalem. These are both extended versions of the Chatzi Kaddish, which we discussed in Part 2 ...

Women of the Wall, an activist group that advocates for egalitarian prayer and women-led Torah readings to be allowed at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, holds a prayer service at the holy site to mark ...

As the Jewish holiday season ends, the Baal Shem Tov’s teachings remind us how prayer, art, and music can sustain us through the year ahead.

What is the response when experiencing answered prayers? When our living hostages were released from Hamas’ tortures, it felt as if our prayers were answered. You will often see congregants come to ...

There are two parts to the commandment of Torah study: the first is to know the Torah’s instructions for guiding one’s life.

Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the ...