Pot luck kiddush. (credit: JUDITH SEGALOFF) If you don’t want the kids to raid the table before the “Kiddush” blessing is made, throw a tablecloth over the table and do a reveal as soon as the ...

This week’s Torah portion Vayechi brings the book of Genesis to a close. We spent the whole fall and winter so far reading about the difficult and complex relationships within ...

Recently, as my mother’s yahrzeit – anniversary of her death – came around I wondered: Was I going to New York to pray at her gravesite and recite the kaddish, or was I going to Florida to pray with ...

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The cup of blessing: The sacred Kiddush cup of a legendary hassidic master - opinion Rav Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev passed away in 1809, and his Kiddush cup has been passed down through the ...

Yeah, fasting for 25 hours is hard, but the hardest mitzvah of the year doesn’t come until after Yom Kippur is over. Right after. For those of us who have made it through several hours of prayer ...

The Jewish New Year celebration features plenty of special prayers to mark the occasion. The two day marking of one of the Hebrew calendar’s holiest holidays, Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, ...

What could be more sacred than water? It is essential to all life, refreshing to drink, and beautiful to behold. In May of 2013 we celebrated our marriage with a carefully crafted and lovingly ...

A kiddush cup that may have been passed around the Friday night dinner table during the reign of Ghengis Khan will be available for auction this fall. The rare remnant of the Silk Road, the ancient ...