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By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Mattie, is the rebbetzin of the Schneerson Center, a synagogue in San Francisco, California.
By Vera Kessler
Ruth Hilu, a master life coach from Mexico City, explains to us in detail what manifestation is, and how we can use this powerful tool in our lives.
By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Nechama Dina Laber is the co-director of the Jewish Greenbush Retreat Campus, and also of the Chabad of Greenbush and Southern Rensselaer County.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Secular protesters last year forcefully prevented traditional Jews from holding an outdoor Yom Kippur service.
By Vera Kessler
Orly Wahba is an international motivational speaker, educator, entrepreneur, author, and community activist.
The US doesn't believe Jews should have the right or freedom to pray in their holiest site.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Sgt. Major Malchiel ben Yosef was the only one to see the terrorist, because he had turned towards Jerusalem to pray.
As characters participating in one of history’s most incredible chapters, we focus our efforts on the specific challenges facing our generation.
By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Shifra Sharfstein is co-director of Chabad at Georgia Tech and Georgia State Universities. She talks about the real meaning behind prayer--establishing a close connection with Hashem.
As characters participating in one of history’s most incredible chapters, we focus our efforts on the specific challenges facing our generation.
Jews hold a special prayer session at the Kotel following the wave of terror attacks this past week that have murdered eleven people.
Why do several men insist on davening in the women’s section in shul during the week?
A new video series that explains the Amida prayer in detail. This video discusses "Boneh Yerushalayim"
Now is the opportunity to slow down, focus on the words, and experience their deeper meaning of our prayers.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to the heads of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox parties, the Israeli Health Ministry will announce the new directives by Wednesday.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
People from around the world were invited to send their names for prayers.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. president called on governors to make such a move “right now” and threatened that “if there’s any question, they’re going to have to call me—but they are not going to be successful in that call.”
While some rabbis have banned the porch minyan on various grounds, week upon week of staying home has started to wear people down, and the phenomenon has increased.
On a recent Wednesday morning, East Coast time, thousands of Orthodox Jews stopped what they were doing to recite a series of psalms all at the same time.
By JNi.Media
A representative of the city's legal adviser objected to the move, arguing that it could not be sneaked under the guise of accessibility.
The woman who was almost crushed by the errant Kotel stone says a blessing for the miracle that happened to her.
By JNi.Media
"The studies are not frontal in the sense of lectures, but include a lot of self-observation, and assimilation of materials in a practical and experiential way."
Prayer is to the human spirit what exercise is to the human body.
If we don't tell our story, then some 'other' story or narrative will overtake the truth.
The Temple Mount was closed following the terror attack that killed two policemen and wounded 2 more.
The Rabbi's health has taken a turn for the worse.
What happens when frum Jews show technical compliance with Torah law but more exuberance and passion for material things? Or when they speak the language of rejection, racism, or extreme isolationism?
Sara Markowitz celebrated her 102nd birthday with her family...
By JNi.Media
'Hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens in the Galilee, Negev, Jerusalem and other locations in central Israel suffer routinely and daily from the noise caused by the PA systems of houses of worship.'
By Jeff Dunetz
With gratitude and thanks to all those who served in the United States Military.
By JNi.Media
As the US Presidential elections draw closer, the candidates are looking for all the support they can get.
With nothing pressing on their duty roster, Rabbi Avi was convinced by the boys to try to catch fish at the river nearby.
The Muslim tourists mistook the Jewish prayer shawls for Islamic floor mats.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Hundreds of Israelis gathered across the country on Monday to pray for the welfare of their Syrian neighbors the night before the holiest day of the Jewish year, Yom Kippur.
The first step in repentance is to say to Hashem that until now we lived as if we were not in front of You, but now we have come back.
Even if a king greets you, you should not answer him. Even if a snake winds itself about you, you must not interrupt your prayers.
Her biggest nightmare revolved around those dreaded three letters that instilled fear and trepidation into even the bravest of men: I R S.
The more we know and understand, the more focus and intention we put into our prayers, the more powerful they are.
“Jews and Christians in the ancient world were the original atheists.” Huh? Dr. Daniel Falk joins Eve Harow on Rejuvenation to discuss the development of prayer.
By JNi.Media
"Dear Rabbi, how are you? We here hope and pray that we'll get a bronze medal. Yarden Gerbi's bout is in halaf an hour, we deserve to get a medal and hear the national anthem."
Any judgment becomes a balance – how much rachamim and how much din?
Prayer is a very important way to connect to G-d and connect to ourselves.
Here are photos of some of the representatives from the Reform and Conservative Movements during their Protest-Prayer Rally at the Kotel plaza.
By JNi.Media
The mixed service is now a retaliation against Jerusalem Chief Rabbi's division of the designated mixed-prayer area.
A journalist heard about an old Rabbi who visited the Kotel, the Western Wall, to pray there three time a day, every day for 50 years. Thinking it was a great story, he traveled to the Kotel, and watched the old man at prayer. When he finished, the reporter went over to interview the rabbi […]
By JNi.Media
The Bennett solution resolves the conflict in a peaceful way, which is not something the Reform and Conservative movements want.
The new prayer, titled "Al Hanisim le'Yom Haatzamaut" (For the Miracles for the Day of Independence), was composed by Chief Rabbi Ben-Tzion Spitz, and Dr. Avi Shmidman
By JNi.Media
"Who 30 years ago in this country would have pretended to be a rabbi, to say nothing of 70 years ago?"
She would notice when people needed, and what they needed, and she did everything she could to fill the void with energy absent in women half her age.
Prime Minister Netanyahu can relax, his Temple Mount status quo has been upheld.
Police threw Yehudah Etzion off the Temple Mount for "praying" because he held out his hands.
The police claim he moved his hands in prayer... maybe he was just talking?
One of the arrested men was praying for a sick person to get well.
By JNi.Media
Apparently the Temple Mount status quo now includes no (Jewish) breastfeeding.
Tens of thousands of Jews are expected to arrive at the Western Wall at 4:30 p.m.
On Tuesday, September 8, participants in this historic event will unite to pray for the safety and well-being of the Jewish nation.
The High Court refused to discuss Glick's appeal and accepted the lower court ruling.
By Moshe Herman
Rabbi Mike Feuer, educational director of Beit Midrash Sulam Yaakov, joins Yishai to discuss 'Va'etchanan,' this week's Torah portion. Yishai reflects on an extremely difficult experience he had yesterday — enduring verbal abuse and humiliation, as he attempted to visit the Temple Mount. Then, in the light of the treatment of Jews at Judaism’s holiest site, the demolitions at Beit El and the Gay Pride March, Yishai discusses with Rabbi Feuer the repetition in “Va’etchanan” of the 10 Commandments and the iconic phrases that crop up throughout the portion, including the line that embodies the core principals of Judaism — the “Shema.” The two also consider the greatest struggles facing modern-day Israel and 21st-century Jewry.
Please pray for a full and speedy recovery to the People of Israel ben Sarah.
John Kerry helped restore calm to the Temple Mount - at the price that Jews may not pray there.
By Rachel Levy
The latest Hamas music video has hit the top of the charts and stirred the passions of the Palestinian soul. Satire.
And we can already hear Obama and Kerry telling him not to upset Allah and thank God on the Temple Mount.
The two Jerusalem Arabs who slaughtered Jews Tuesday morning attacked in the middle of the “Amidah” silent prayer, according to one of the worshippers. “Yosef” told Israel Radio that he heard shot during the prayer, turned around and saw one Arab shooting in all directions. Seconds afterwards, the second murderer emerged with a butcher knife […]
Just to make the score even, police also arrested a Jew
An opinion recorded in the Talmud states that prayers correspond to the daily sacrifices offered in the Temple that are mentioned in this week’s portion (Berachot 26b, Numbers 28:4). It’s been argued that this opinion may be the conceptual base for our standardized prayer. Since sacrifices had detailed structure, our prayers also have a set text. […]
The contrast between these two photos is astounding.
The Rabbi began his fast upon hearing of the kidnapped boys, and has been in constant prayer for them until his collapse.
The White House finally issued a statement on last week's terror kidnapping of three Israeli teens, one a dual U.S. citizen.
Jews and Muslims joined together in prayer on Tuesday, praying for the safe return of three kidnapped Jewish boys.
New York NCSY, the OU, Bnei Akiva and RCA are launching a "virtual vigil" to bring the kidnapped teens home.
Israeli Knesset Members and workers gather for a prayer in the Kneseet for the release of three Jewish boys who were kidnapped a few days ago by Hamas.
By JTA
Will a Hamas representative be invited too? Or will Abbas fill that role?
It might be best to say the Traveler’s Prayer on the airplane before putting on tefillin.
By JTA
A prayer book developed for use by Jews in the U.S. military will be released this week, the first of its type published since World War II. Reform, Orthodox and Conservative rabbis cooperated in creating the prayer book, which was commissioned by the JWB Jewish Chaplains Council. The chaplains’ council, a program of the Jewish […]
By Jeremy Rosen
There is a dichotomy between personal, private prayer and public communal prayer.
Israeli police prevent Jews from entering the site of the very Temple the Maccabees purified and re-opened more than 2,000 years ago.
The Israeli government was respectful enough to offer Reform Jews their own location at one of the holiest sites in Judaism in order to pray as they please.
After being banned for almost a week for publicly praying, dozens of Jews went up on Sunday.
As the Israeli police and Islamic Waqf have forbidden Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, it is obvious that this man is NOT praying. No sir. No reason to arrest him at all. He is simply standing in quiet contemplation.
By JTA
Four Israeli Jewish teenagers were detained by police Wednesday for bowing down at the Temple Mount, an act that seen as a prayer and which is prohibited by the Muslim Waqf, the Muslim religious administration that is authorized by Israel to manage the holy site. A rabbi also visiting the site told Israel National News […]
By JoeSettler
There's no question that many of the backers of the Women of the Wall see the obliteration of Torah Judaism in public places in Israel as their ultimate goal.
Chillul Tefila Bifarhesia, as well as halachicly challenged verbiage and dress, are external manifestations of a critical lack of personal yiras shomayim which has lethal consequences.
The Egyptian ambassador warned against allowing Jews to pray at the Temple Mount even under a time-share system.
Can prayer in the name of Jesus be all inclusive just like a rabbi’s prayer? Jewish legislators in Florida say they don’t like being “JCd." Maybe they should get back at them with a few shofar blasts.
Likud Knesset Member Miri Regev announced Wednesday she will visit the Temple Mount to try to understand the problem with Jews praying at the holy site. The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf officially controls the Temple Mount, a power granted to it by the Israeli government shortly after the Six-Day War in 1967. MK Regev, who chairs […]
Public protests of the expansion of the Robinson's Arch area for egalitarian prayer would only generate more enmity.
By JTA
The rabbi of the Western Wall said he "can live with" a plan presented by Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky for a permanent prayer section at the Western Wall where women can organize minyans, even one for men and women together. Sharansky briefed Rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Sites of Israel Shmuel […]
Sharansky says the Western Wall is long enough for women to have their own minyan and Torah reading. The Women of the Wall leader accepts the compromise. Will the Rabbinate big enough to agree?
Parents of students from the Raqia preschool in the Nofei Yam neighborhood in north Tel Aviv have expressed outrage that their children’s school will also serve as a synagogue on Shabbat and holidays.
Events have been unfolding so rapidly. First it was Hurricane Sandy, which attacked with merciless fury and left multitudes homeless, their cars and belongings swept away. Power failed, not for a day, or for a week, but in some cases for several weeks.
By Rabbi Shimshon HaKohen Nadel
Minutes after candle-lighting, sirens rang out in Jerusalem, disturbing the peace and tranquility ushered in by Shabbat. Earlier that day, my wife and I assured our parents that we are far from the rockets in our home in Har Nof, a quiet suburb nestled in the Jerusalem Forest.
A special prayer session has been called for the residents of the south and IDF soldiers.
The continuation of my column on the power of prayer was ready to go – but then tragedy hit. Tragedy of a magnitude none of us could have envisioned.
My column on prayer last week touched sensitive chords in many hearts. It is apparent that in our troubled times people are struggling with the entire concept of prayer. Does it really work? Is there Someone listening, or is it a waste of time?
Egypt’s Channel 1 broadcast a video of Egyptian Cleric Futouh Abd Al-Nabi Mansour, Head of Religious Endowment of the Matrouh Governorate leading an Islamic prayer service attended by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, during which he asked Allah to kill all the Jews and all of their allies around the world. Appearing earnest in prayer, Morsi sat cross-legged, eyes closed, open raised raised in front of him, listening and answering “amen” as Mansour led a large group of worshipers in the October 19 prayer.
Once again I must postpone the continuation of my Oct. 5 column, “Technology, Yom Kippur, Ahmadinejad,” this time due to the heavy reader response to last week’s column.
By Paula Stern
As the men danced around below us, I had a lot of time to notice the people who were there - many are friends and neighbors of mine; children and grandchildren of people I know. The rabbi that is so loved in this community; a woman who regularly collects food for needy people. This one has a child who is ill; a boy with Down Syndrome who is so loved and cherished. This family has more boys than I can count; this one just had a daughter who got married. She's a grandmother now. Her son just got engaged. That one there is married to her over there. And on and on - a community of people.
I am postponing the follow-up to my previous column – “Technology, Yom Kippur, Ahmadinejad” – so that I might share with you a very personal experience.
July 10, 2026 
