The first notable number is 42. That’s the number of places in which Bnei Yisrael encamped, from the time they left Egypt until they stood poised at the threshold of Eretz Yisrael. If you count the ...

It was those ants, right there at her feet. That moment has stuck with me for years — it reminds me that what’s right in ...

In a world that doesn't know how to rest, Shabbat can offer a haven that is more than simply dozing. In a society filled with ...

So when they want to ‘find’ Shabbos what do they do? One opinion is that they count seven days and make the seventh day ...

Rabbi Yitzchok Zilberstein said that cholent is not only spiritually designated for Shabbat, but that its heavy ingredients ...

Indoor family Shabbat at Boulder JCC, with challah and grape juice and BYO picnic, plus a decorate-your-own mezuzah case workshop.

Spiritually, “between the straits” remains ever applicable. For anyone experiencing deep distress, mourning or despair, it ...

Our Jewish identity isn’t bound to an academic calendar. There’s no “off-season” for mitzvot. Tefillot are still recited, ...

Known in Hebrew as Bein HaMetzarim (“between the straits”), the Three Weeks mark a period of national mourning in the Jewish ...

If ever there was a synagogue that’s earned the right to throw itself a birthday shindig, it’s this elegant and intriguing house of worship in central Norway only 220 miles south of the Arctic Circle.

Balak precedes the Fast of the Fourth Month (that’s what the navi calls Shiv’a Asar b’Tammuz) almost 80% of the time. That includes, in Chutz LaAretz, the years when Shavuot is Friday-Shabbat an ...