The prayer for Rosh Chodesh is a prayer of supplication ... growing as teachers and learners — no matter our role or title. JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century.

Anthony Keddie, and Kenneth Atkinson. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2021. Harkins, Angela Kim. “Early Jewish Prayer.” Co-authored with Daniel Falk. Pages 461-486 in Early Judaism and its Modern Interpreters.

Standard Jewish prayers for the government, writes a scholar of Judaism and technology, omit the essential players in any democracy: the people. This Shabbat, like every Shabbat, synagogues around ...

To get ready for the celebration, here's a primer on Hanukkah's traditional prayers and blessings. Candles are added to the menorah from right to left (the way Hebrew is read), but kindled from ...

The Shema, declaring the Jewish faith in one God, is an important part of worship in the synagogue. The Amidah prayer consists of a series of blessings: The first three blessings praise God and ...

Open prayer and prostration on the Temple Mount by Jewish worshipers is now a matter of routine and permitted by the police ...

I was JTA’s only available Hebrew-speaking, non-Shabbat-observant reporter. Packing my laptop, I trudged through the drizzle to the main lodge, where the Wi-Fi was strong. In the lodge ...

Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor, once told Michael Goldfarb of people going to their deaths at Auschwitz asking who will say Kaddish for me? Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for the ...

I debated Abdullah al Andalusi from the Muslim Debate Initiative at Manchester University (UK) on the subject of “Is Anti ...