How will you be celebrating your Rosh Hashanah? I’m going to be heading up to Canada to celebrate with my family, eating a lot of good food and going to a lot of synagogue. Sounds like a normal day to me. But there are other ways to celebrate the... 

Religious leaders, politicians and 400 residents in Sydney, Australia’s North Shore hailed plans to turn a vacated training facility to a synagogue and community center as a vital step to unite a neighborhood and sprawling Jewish community. Original... 

Located just a short walk from the sixth-century Mayor Synagogue, Europe’s oldest, Call Barcelona Books and Wines combines the features of a Judaica store with a Chabad House. Read more here:  Modern Barcelona Center Celebrates Ancient Jewish Community  Read More →

Question: Why do Jewish people where special clothes to pray and to attend synagogue? Answer: According to Jewish law one should be dressed respectfully since prayer is the place where we meet with G-d. This is no different than how we would dress if... 

One week after a break-in forced a Tiberias synagogue to delay a long-planned renovation to its centuries-old building, its directors are working overtime to maintain a modicum of services to tourists in one of Israel’s busiest seasons. View original... 

A group calling itself Yisrael Sheli (My Israel) has distributed a slightly revised wayfarers’ prayer that it is asking people to say on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s behalf before he leaves for Washington on Sunday.The Yisrael Sheli (My Israel)... 

Three decades after its founding and two decades after merging with a Chabad-Lubavitch center, Raleigh, N.C.’s Congregation Sha’arei Israel synagogue unveiled another milestone in its history by opening the doors to a newly-expanded campus. More here:  North... 

Question: What is the Parshas HaShavua? Answer: The Torah (5 books of Moses) is divided into 54 sections and 1 or 2 of them are read every week so that a public reading of the Torah is completed once a year. The Parshas HaShavua , or the “Weekly... 

Thousands of celebrants – including a large contingent of Georgian Jews – joined both of Israel’s chief rabbis and several political leaders to toast the reopening of the Shenkin neighborhood’s historic Geulat Yisrael synagogue. Read more from... 

Ocala, Fla.’s first Orthodox synagogue made history once more on May 21 with the city’s first-recorded traditional circumcision, that of Menachem Mendel Hecht. Read more: Traditional Circumcision a First in Central Florida Town  Read More →