I have produced a recognizable body of scholarship on ancient Jewish and Christian prayers and hymns. During the formative period of biblical scholarship in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth ...

And in early October, we’re somehow meant to endure a Jewish New Year that will force us to confront the chasm between our ...

The prayers are in an ancient language called Hebrew and I read them from this book, which is called a siddur. Mine gives me an English translation too. But on the Shabbat, which is from sunset on ...

But some think Shmuly Yanklowitz's new prayer goes too far. The idea of a Jewish prayer for a successful government harks all the way back to the prophet Jeremiah, who advised the Jews who were ...

The Jewish Agency for Israel has started a campaign to collect the prayers and messages from Jews in Israel and around the world and pledged to place them in the Kotel. Israel’s borders have ...