It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor, once told Michael Goldfarb of people going to their deaths at Auschwitz asking who will say Kaddish for me? Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for the ...

Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for the dead. On the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation Michael Goldfarb explores the origins and meaning of Kaddish. Show more Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize winner ...

Kadish is the Jewish prayer for the dead. On the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz' liberation Goldfarb visits the remains of the death camp and explores the origins of Kaddish, and why the Jewish ...

Additional Prayers for the Dead V. Do not remember my sins, O Lord, R. When you come to judge the world by fire. V. Direct my way in your sight, O Lord, my God, R. When you come to judge the world ...

As the founder of Selah, a Brooklyn-based Jewish community for people in recovery, Arielle Krule aims to train 2,000 people ...

The custom of including the Ten Commandments as part of the Shema was once widespread, but from a certain point in time it was systematically opposed by the Sages. Why did they object to it?

The Jewish population of Judea and Galilee was divided into three religious groups, two major and one minor. The largest group by numbers were the Pharisees but they were not a majority.

What we are facing felt too new, too big, too difficult to understand. Yet when I revisited the Mi Shebeirach, the Jewish prayer for healing, I found much to guide me as I find my way through these ...

At a Holocaust Remembrance Day event attended by Governor Henry McMaster, Rabbi Sam Rose prayed for tolerance to migrants, ...

One of the approved Stamford schools is OLAM Public Charter School, run by Hebrew Public, which operates two schools in Brooklyn, one in Staten Island and another in Philadelphia. If it opens in ...