Traditional Jewish ceremonies, like Christian ones, marked a woman’s transition from daughter to wife − going from her parents to her husband. But there are creative ways to reflect gender equality ...

Why is there a Jewish practice to bury prayer books and other texts that contain God's name? A rabbi offers the mystical answer.

Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape ...

The Jewish case against the projected reform of the calendar by the insertion of “blank days” which would make the Sabbath a movable day in relation to the week, was explained to-day to the ...

The sabbath before Yom Kippur is called Shabbat Teshuva (the Sabbath of Repentance), due to its proximity to the Ten Days of Repentance and the haftarah’s call, “Return, O Israel.” ...

Shabbat Hagadol: Receiving the great Sabbath This year, as Passover begins at the close of Shabbat, the lights of Shabbat and Passover flow into each other as we commemorate our becoming a people.

New York City sanitation workers would be banned from issuing trash-related fines to New Yorkers during some weekend hours — including during the Jewish Sabbath — under a new proposed state bill.

Perhaps, suggests the Bible scholar Jon D. Levenson in his new book “Israel’s Day of Light and Joy: The Origin, Development, and Enduring Meaning of the Jewish Sabbath,” the verse is meant ...

Safeguarding the Jewish Sabbath: ... to state the Jewish case against the introduction of the Blank Day, ... the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Committee on Calendar Reform, ...

Considered the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur is the culmination of a 10-day period of repentance and reflection, which began last week with the start of Rosh Hashanah. Stream NBC ...

Yom Kippur is the most important day of the year for the Jewish faith and ends the 10-day period of repentance and reflection known as the “High Holidays,” which began with Rosh Hashanah.