So how do you make a kiddush that people will talk about for years to come? Here are some ideas to start your creative kiddush juices flowing like grape juice! Serious congregations don’t schmooze ...

In 2023, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts opened a permanent Judaica gallery, the country’s third at a general — read: non-Jewish — institution. A year later, Houston’s MFA followed suit. And, just last ...

This month I celebrated a milestone birthday (I am now enrolled in Medicare … yup, it’s that milestone birthday!), and my wife asked me what I wanted to celebrate the occasion. Without hesitation, I ...

In the early 2010s, antiquity dealers began approaching Israeli institutions with startling offerings: centuries-old manuscripts that had been found in the caves of northern Afghanistan. Spanning ...

A kiddush cup that may have been passed around the Friday night dinner table during the reign of Ghengis Khan will be available for auction this fall. The rare remnant of the Silk Road, the ancient ...

Tears blurred my own eyes as I looked at the person who had endured for so long, and now chanted these holy words with such feeling, in our sukkah, so many years later. I wrote this reflective piece ...

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In the wake of the anniversary of the death of the close and trusted disciple of Rabbi Kook, Rosh Yeshiva of Merkaz HaRav, Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Charlap ztz”l (7 Kislev 1951), I will mention an important ...

Two of the most important concepts in Judaism are derived from this week’s Torah portion, Emor. They are: kiddush hashem, the mitzvah of sanctifying God’s name, and chillul hashem, profaning God’s ...

Ofira Asayag hosted the Democrats Party Chairman, Yair Golan, on Channel 12 on Friday evening for an interview, during which the left-wing politician donned a kippah and recited the Shabbat Kiddush by ...