Recalling her days as hostage in Gaza, Agam Berger says she was offered Jewish prayer book, observed Passover, Yom Kippur ...

The custom of including the Ten Commandments as part of the Shema was once widespread, but from a certain point in time it was systematically opposed by the Sages. Why did they object to it?

At the heart of the initiative lies Merav's prayer for unity, which has become an especially urgent aspiration amid the ...

In a number of countries with sizable Muslim and Jewish populations, we asked Muslim and Jewish adults for their views on religion and governance – ...

It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heather Lende ... of wine (of course …) and a copy of Sherry Simpson’s book "The Way Winter Comes." It’s a great book that not a lot of ...

Despite heightened tensions with the West and strict Sharia laws, 9,000 Jews still live in Iran—and they have no plans to leave anytime soon.

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword ... the traditional Jewish prayer recited at funerals, and the spiritual, "Go Down, Moses," whose words originate in the biblical book of Exodus, with the ...

Then and there I decided to tip toe into a ritual once prohibited to women, the wearing of a tallit (a Jewish prayer shawl ... excursions and daily activities, these teens have a variety of ...

President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Vice President-elect JD Vance attend the 125th Army-Navy football game in ...

Rabbi Baruch Kind said that the synagogue had saved Haifa and that the study hall had taken the missile hit for the entire neighborhood.

The book suggests that faith—even difficult ... Wiesel married Marion Erster Rose in 1969, with a well-known Jewish theologian officiating at the wedding. Now growing tired of journalism’s daily grind ...