Beliefs & Practices

Answer us, God, on this day of fasting, because we are in great pain. This morning, when I read the ...

Oh, yeah — we hit it again. Two parking tickets this morning, and one’s more than $100. Man, this Rosh ...

The idea of repentance always fills me with performance anxiety. Most of it’s due to the prayer service, which starts ...

Or, just reason #1 to avoid McDonalds. Karen Hanrahan, a health and wellness consultant, bought this hamburger in 1996. (The ...

Because everybody loves a Saturday night….The night before last, all over the world, Jews began saying Selichot, the confessional prayers ...

Confession time: I grew up a Conservative Jew, and although I’m Orthodox now — or Hasidic, or Biala, or hairy, ...

This past Wednesday night, Rabbi Dov Linzer, the Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah spoke at NYU’s L’SHMA Lecture Series ...

Edgar M. Bronfman is among the Jewish community’s leading philanthropists, and his commitment to this website in particular has been ...

I love listening to songs first thing in the morning. I have a habit of waking up in a very ...

Sharon Brous, the rabbi at LA’s Ikar minyan, has a upfront, provocative piece in On Faith about vice presidential candidate ...

The commandment to wipe out the nation of Amalek is, perhaps, one of the most morally complicated parts of the ...

As a new parent, I’ve become suddenly and acutely sensitive to smoking. While I used to personally detest it and ...