ritual

I did not fast during Ramadan. But I did somehow experience a little bit of the meaning of the Muslim ...

A few years ago my family was living in Israel and attending a synagogue near our home. One Shabbat, our ...

For all the spiritual riches of religious tradition, sometimes we forget our spiritual essence – the spark of divinity we associate with ...

“Why don’t you learn to read the megillah,” asked my husband a few months before Purim.I thought about it for ...

A few months ago, even though I’m afraid of heights, I joined the local rock gym. No, I had never ...

Jew. Woman. American. Those three attributes are as intrinsic to my identity as my own name.  A close fourth would ...

Partnership minyans are a relatively new phenomenon in our part of northwest London, so when one started around the corner ...

Last year I rediscovered Megillat Ruth. On the morning of the second day of Shavuot I joined a closely knit ...

What number comes to mind when you think about a Passover seder? Probably four. Four cups of wine. Four questions. Four sons. Especially those ...

Maybe you can relate. For the last few months I’ve attached a small device that counts my every step. At ...