ritual

“Are you going to fast on Yom Kippur?” “Are you going to try not to eat until chatzot, midday?” These ...

I pray every day. Most days the early morning cerebral fog is pretty dense and my anxiety about being late ...

As we cross from 5774 to 5775, the Akeida (the Binding of Isaac, which is traditionally read on Rosh Hashanah) ...

I never could carry a tune but, at an early age, I discovered that I could make a soulful sound ...

Each shofar has a unique undulating shape and trumpeting sound. The sound may be low and haunting or bold and ...

The quintessential image of home, holiness, and Jewish motherhood is that of a woman blessing the Shabbat candles, performing a ...

My husband does not do birthdays. When I first met him over 20 years ago, this truly puzzled me. Birthdays ...

It was mid-August and the air conditioning was broken in the café on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Across ...

This is the second post in a two-part series of blog posts written by high school students. We encourage you ...

What can happen when we take mikvah out of the realm of the hidden, and bring it into a space ...