Being called to the Torah for an aliyah and leading certain prayers are, among other synagogue rituals, generally reserved for Jews. 

The Jewish community needs to gain some self-confidence. We are like the beautiful teenage girl who looks in the mirror ...

2013 marks the ISJL’s thirteenth year of existence.Our B’nai Mitzvah Year.*We will go through many of the same things any ...

I’ve done everything “right”: given my children Jewish education, sent them to Jewish camps, spent time with them in Israel ...

Before I could read and write in English, I spoke Yiddish. At age 3 I learned the Hebrew alef-bet alongside ...

The focal point of the synagogue sanctuary.

Rabbinic restrictions on behavior in the synagogue reveal continuing tension between ordinary Jews' sense of being at home and at ease there, and the desire of rabbis to set it apart as a sacred place.

One parent shares her family's thoughts about the possibility of her daughter attending a Jewish day school.

One of the conversations that I had early in rabbinic school about how we connect to the wisdom of Torah ...

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