Since we first made the choice to convert to Judaism, we’ve made a lot of changes in the way we do things and how we spend our time. As a family, we’ve always made time together a priority but that time was not always of the highest quality. Each day we learn more and add to the ways we li…

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Synagogues are generally run by a board of directors composed of lay people. They manage and maintain the synagogue and its activities, and hire a rabbi for the community. It is worth noting that a synagogue can exist without a rabbi: religious services can be, and often are, conducted by la…

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When we speak of The Temple, we speak of the place in Jerusalem that was the center of Jewish worship from the time of Solomon to its destruction by the Romans in 70 C.E. This was the one and only place where sacrifices and certain other religious rituals were performed. It was partially destroy…

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Non-Jews are always welcome to attend services in a synagogue, so long as they behave as proper guests. Proselytizing and “witnessing” to the congregation are not proper guest behavior. Would you walk into a stranger’s house and criticize the decor? But we always welcome non-Jews who come to syna…

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The portion of the synagogue where prayer services are performed is commonly called the sanctuary. Synagogues in the United States are generally designed so that the front of the sanctuary is on the side towards Jerusalem, which is the direction that we are supposed to face when reciting c…

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At a minimum, a synagogue is a beit tefilah, a house of prayer. It is the place where Jews come together for community prayer services. Jews can satisfy the obligations of daily prayer by praying anywhere; however, there are certain prayers that can only be said in the presence of a minyan …

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Shabbat Shalom to everyone! For those of us that weren’t able to make it to Temple today or last night and want to read about this week’s Parsha, it is Bamidbar. Here is a brief summary. Being the first Parsha of the fourth book of Moses, Bamidbar, the Parsha deals with G-d asking Moses…

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Today was a proud moment for all Estonian Jews and Jews around the globe. Tallin, the capital city of Estonia has officially opened its first Temple since its original one was destroyed in air raid by Nazi Germany in 1944. It has, since then, been the only European capital city without a place of…

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