Over the past 21 years, David Nekrutman, an Othodox Jew who lives in Israel, has been nurturing both personal and professional relationships with Christians. His newest project aims to encourage ...

About 200 congregants filled the stain glassed-windowed sanctuary on a Shabbat morning this spring, praying, singing and welcoming new members. Among the newly welcomed members was a young Israeli man ...

Ettie Newlands' parents raised her in a traditional Jewish household, celebrating all the religious festivals. Her father and grandparents escaped Nazi Germany to come to America, where they could ...

The sound of the shofar can be a battle cry or the announcement of the messianic age when the roaring lion lies down with the lamb. The Shabbat after Operation Rising – roaring – Lion, we are ...

The Sabbath preceding Passover, Shabbat haGadol, “the great Shabbat,” is often treated as the fifth special Shabbat of the Adar-Nissan period, although this is inaccurate. The four special Sabbaths on ...

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