Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is a time meant for celebration and self-reflection. The holiday, which begins this year at sundown on Friday and ends at nightfall on Sunday, is a joyous occasion ...

Passover, one of the holy weeks in the Jewish faith, started at the beginning of the month, and the final holy days are here, ...

Jewish liturgy can feel archaic or demanding, but its oldest words still have something to say to our most contemporary struggles, writes the host of the “Thoughts and Prayers” podcast. Several years ...

Standard Jewish prayers for the government, writes a scholar of Judaism and technology, omit the essential players in any democracy: the people. This Shabbat, like every Shabbat, synagogues around the ...

I grew up praying to a god in a language I did not understand. In particular, as an observant Conservative Jewish American (that is, “Conservative Jewish, not “conservative, Jewish”), I grew up ...

Members of Seattle's Jewish community continued to pray for strength and healing Wednesday in the aftermath of last week's shootings at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle offices. About 700 ...