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 ...

Covered in prayer shawls, Jewish men of the Cohanim Priestly caste participate in a blessing during the holiday of Passover, at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in the Old ...

As a rabbi, I’ve devoted my life to tending to the well-being of the American Jewish community. That community is now collapsing in on itself in a moment of true rupture—and that, I believe ...

American synagogues have a new prayer for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Mural of Dr. Martin Luther King's march in Selma, with Dr. Joshua Heschel, a Jewish civil rights activist, pictured below the ...

I was many weeks into reciting kaddish, the traditional Jewish prayer of mourning, for my father when I realized I did not know how to pray. Oh, I knew the words and the melodies for the daily ...

Samuel Levine, director of the Jewish Law Institute at Touro Law Center in Central Islip, recites a prayer Sunday with others gathered by the grave marker of Helen Zimmerman, one of more than ...