Prayer

This is the time of year that rabbis and cantors are busy preparing for the High Holy Days. Time taken ...

I have a rich undergraduate memory of a professor teaching about communities. She said that one of the key aspects ...

Rosh Hashanah is a magical time.  Or at least, we seem to think so. According to the Mishnah (Rosh Hashanah ...

When you see an adorable baby, a stunning gem, or an intricately illustrated medieval Hagaddah, don’t you feel a yearning to ...

Our hearts are heavy.This past Thursday evening marked the onset of Tu B’Av, the traditional Jewish holiday celebrating love. Yet ...

She wore a kippah as she opened her gemara. We were a somewhat diverse group–I come from an Orthodox background, ...

Week after week, I light two small candles. I move behind my children and put one hand on each of ...

Editor’s Note: This is the blog we had scheduled to run today: a lovely piece about any gathering place becoming ...

Kol Sasson Congregation was founded in Skokie, Illinois in 2003 as a Shira Hadasha-style minyan. At first, we met on ...

I’m a skeptic when it comes to believing that every cloud has a silver lining. Some clouds do of course, ...