Like many Jewish rituals and traditions, from lighting Friday night candles to hosting Passover seders, Sukkot is primarily celebrated in the home – or rather, in the yard. Translated as the “Festival ...

A year on from Hamas's unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, unsubstantiated claims about the number of children ...

If Daniel Schloff’s family had been on time to Yom Kippur morning services in 1965, he may have never encountered Sandy ...

The Lord said to Moses, that the tenth day of this seventh month [Tishrei] is the Day of Atonement…. Do not do any work on that day…. This is a lasting ordinance for generations to come….” ...

It’s called “Though I Stared Earnestly at My Fingernail” by an accomplished Brooklyn-born writer named Merle Feld, who, while ...

Here are some passages from Jack Smith’s January 6 brief, as seen through the prism of Jewish sources. Let me be clear that I ...

Composers are always making new operas, but leaders in the opera world stress the need for emotional immediacy.

What is the New King James Version of the Bible and how does it differ from others? Here is a brief explanation of several ...

Michael Caldwell, of North Wolcott, is a retired United Church of Christ pastor and of the ecumenical international Iona Community.

Israeli assassinations since October 7 Here are some of the top Hamas and Hezbollah leaders killed since the October 7 attack ...

Though if you know the punchline to that joke, we’d like to hear it.