I have produced a recognizable body of scholarship on ancient Jewish and Christian prayers and hymns. During the formative period of biblical scholarship in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth ...

Thousands of Jewish worshippers gathered at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall for the traditional priestly blessing prayer on Thursday. The "Birkat Cohanim", or Cohen's blessing, is a ritual dating back to ...

What happens when “an Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, a Sephardic Chief Rabbi and a future Nobel Prize winning author walk into a café?” While such a dream meeting never took place, what we do know is that ...

Yom Kippur, known as the Day of Atonement, is considered the holiest day in Judaism. In 2025, the holiday begins on Oct. 1. The holiday is observed with a 25-hour fast and special prayer services to ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. (JTA) — When ...