5+ hour, 26+ min ago   (562+ words) NEW YORK (VINnews) — An emotional Torah celebration in Cleveland has drawn attention across the American charedi community after a 101-year-old Jewish resident completed the Talmudic tractate of Bava Batra for the first time in his life, at a ceremony attended…...

26+ min ago   (450+ words) SALT LAKE CITY — As September marches across Utah, bringing cooler temperatures and the arrival of fall, Jewish synagogues and individuals prepare for the High Holy Day of Rosh Hashana. The holiday, much like Passover and its religious cousin Easter, varies…...

1+ hour, 12+ min ago   (362+ words) Ynetnews Tens of thousands of worshippers gathered overnight between Saturday and Sunday at the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem to recite Selichot prayers ahead of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur The Selichot gathering was held in the presence of rabbis…...

2+ hour, 13+ min ago   (7+ words) The Cantor, the lion, and the fox...

2+ hour, 49+ min ago   (215+ words) Yitzhak Meir leads a powerful night of Selichot, music and prayer at the Jerusalem Convention Center as worshippers prepare for the High Holy Days. The annual Selichot event featuring Yitzhak Meir is taking place Saturday night at the Jerusalem Convention…...

8+ hour, 16+ min ago   (1691+ words) GlobalSecurity.org The camps themselves were not new terrain. Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nur Shams belong to the nineteen West Bank camps established after the 1948 war to house Palestinians displaced in the Nakba and subsequently administered by the United Nations Relief…...

3+ hour, 11+ min ago   (239+ words) In a deeply divided world, Acts 17:26 offers a strikingly simple vision: “He made from one every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the… The post One humanity, many peoples: Christianity appeared first on The Sunday Guardian....

4+ hour, 18+ min ago   (33+ words) He says that when we enter into the period of Selichot, it would be totally understandable if we were filled with anxiety and dread - but we can feel optimistic. Learning optimism from Selichot...

4+ hour, 5+ min ago   (20+ words) It would be totally understandable if we were filled with anxiety and dread. But... How to learn optimism from Selichot...

14+ hour, 35+ min ago   (121+ words) Kuensel Online Between disaster and devotion We are not lumps of rock, and so we naturally feel the pain of those affected by such tragedies. The great Dzogchen master Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche gave an example: if we see a child…...