So when it came time to name the jail’s new siddur — perhaps the first ever Jewish prayer book compiled expressly for the use ...

In addition to hostage families, former Hamas captives Keith Siegel and Yelena Trupanob participated in the solemn pre-holiday Selichot gathering.The post Thousands join hostage families for Western W ...

Tens of thousands of Jews attend first Selichot prayer session of the year at the Western Wall, alongside released hostages ...

Din, the Hamas official overseeing Jerusalem affairs, issued a warning against what he described as “settler incitement” to ...

In Hebrew, the Shehechiyanu is pronounced, "Barukh ata adonai elohenu melekh ha'olam, shehecheyanu, v'kiyimanu, v'higiyanu la'z'man ha'zeh." Another prayer—called the Hamotzi—is said before ...

The above question is from the sefer Jewish Prayer, the Right Way by my late dear friend and colleague, Jewish Press halacha columnist, HaRav Yaakov Simcha Cohen, zt”l. Rabbi Cohen passed away ...

Open prayer and prostration on the Temple Mount by Jewish worshipers is now a matter of routine and permitted by the police on a daily basis, activists for prayer rights at the holy site have said.

It’s not easy getting teens to think about God. Even if they go to Jewish day school.  When one Jewish educational ...

Among the recent public letters was one from dozens of Orthodox rabbis demanding “moral clarity” to what they called a ...

The standard Hebrew text of the prayer for the government is more than 500 years old, long predating modern democracy. Prior to emancipation, the unelected rulers under which all Jews lived had an ...