“We can heal ourselves and each other,” Ziva Plattner said casually, after using a sweet Israeli song to teach Hebrew to students and parents at YULA at a Yom Iyun on Dec. 25. After giving a lesson in ...

I have joined over 25 million Americans who practice meditation on a regular basis. These days I go to meditation class more regularly than I go to shul. I have never been prone to praying; I remain a ...

Rabbi Shefa Gold thought she was inventing the practice of Hebrew chant back in the 1980s. Before entering rabbinical school late in that decade she had been a musician fascinated by the power of ...

Alternative approaches try to inspire regular prayer as a lifelong religious practice. On the top floor of SAR Academy in Riverdale, New York, a group of students at the Jewish day school gather for ...

The devil takes center stage in but one brief part of the Hebrew scriptures: The first two chapters of Job. Other references are sketchy, including the famous garden appearance in Genesis 3. There, a ...

In the secular calendar, a new month begins in the middle of the moon’s cycle. In the Jewish calendar, a new month begins with the new moon. The Hebrew word for month is chodesh which also means ...