That’s when the fun begins. Whether you have a weekly kiddush at your synagogue or a special celebratory kiddush, the key is to make the event memorable. Shuls with multicultural bases are the most ...

“The essence and reality of [how] Shabbos [can reinvigorate the world with another six days’ worth of ko’ach] is only through the fact that people keep and observe Shabbos! Throughout the millennia of ...

The Mishnah Berurah (Orach Chayim 643:sk4) explains that the Rambam maintains that a person has fulfilled the mitzvah of sukkah as soon as he sits in one. Since a general halachic principle dictates ...

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 ...

Serious congregations don’t schmooze during synagogue services. They wait until after the rabbi says “Kiddush.” That’s when the fun begins. Whether you have a weekly kiddush at your synagogue or a ...