(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Mark Vogel, who lives in Riverdale and runs a website about Jewish and kosher travel, spoke for many of his neighbors when he posted a video on Instagram of his...
Amid its many definitions and lengthy discussion of the word “the” and its usage, the Oxford English Dictionary states that the definite article may be “Used emphatically, in the sense of ‘the pre-eminent’, ‘the typical’,...
(JTA) — What is home? The question sounds like it would best be answered by a children’s book on which each page proclaims a sweet tautology like, “Home is where you feel at home.” There would...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (JTA) — Rebecca Kanthor, a member of a progressive Jewish community in Shanghai, knows that she can easily order lulavs and etrogs in a few clicks online.
Kanthor, who belongs to Kehilat Shanghai, simply logs...
For most Jews, a succah conjures a booth with canvas or wooden walls, and bamboo or some sort of foliage on top as schach. Growing up in Sydney, Sarah Sassoon, 42, had a very different experience....
LONDON – Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy has launched two educational resources to enhance the high holiday season. The print-at-home materials, available in English, Hebrew and Spanish, can be downloaded and are intended to be printed before...
Each day of Succot (except Shabbat) we take the Lulav (“the Four Species” – a palm frond bound together with willow and myrtle branches, and an etrog/citron), recite a blessing for the Mitzvah, and ceremoniously...
(JTA) — A bumper crop of etrogs is taking a more direct route to Israel this year, thanks to a historic confluence of geopolitics and religious observance.
Once home to the largest Jewish community in the...
(JTA) — Every seven years, in ancient times, Jewish men, women, and children would gather at the Temple on the first day of Succot to hear the king of Jerusalem read aloud from the Torah.
