Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. (JTA) — How are we supposed to celebrate Simchat Torah this year with a full ...

Rabba Sara Hurwitz speaks about the surprising reference to the sukkah in the Birkat Hamazon, the blessing after the meal during the holiday of Sukkot. The blessing says, “May God establish for ...

So did the other 350 residents of Israel’s only Messianic Jewish moshav. Sitting on a pine-covered ridge about ten miles west of Jerusalem, the Yad HaShmona community has lived in steady tension ...

During the High Holidays of the year 5700, 1939 of the Common Era, the German army was completing its conquest of Poland. Yom Kippur fell on Shabbat that year, as it did this year, and by that ...

Rabbis in Israel and all over the world are asking themselves "How will we celebrate Simchat Torah this year?" On the one hand it is a festival, a day when it is forbidden to give eulogies and to ...

It is the question on everyone’s mind, one fraught with emotion, uncertainty, and no small amount of dread. Simchat Torah, the day of rejoicing for the sacred law given to us at Sinai, is ...

Well-known Religious Zionist scholar Rabbi Alan Haber is convinced we are living in messianic times. Rabbi Haber wrote, “To me, it is clear that we are in stages of the messianic times already ...

5:116) Jews are in full accord with this. In the Hebrew Bible the primary cause of the Messianic Age is God. That a specific human being would play an important role in ushering in the Messianic ...

(my translation) This Mishnah depicts an apocalyptic, catastrophic messianic period. Such depictions of the days of the Messiah are commonplace in the Talmud, Kabbalah, and Jewish literature ...

Portion control is one of the first and most essential steps in any weight-loss journey. Consuming large portions puts you at a greater risk of weight gain because it usually means eating more ...

Included in the Avinu Malkeinu prayer are the following two petitions to Hashem: Our Father, our King, raise high the pride of Yisrael your nation Our Father, our King, raise high the pride of ...