Jewish liturgy can feel archaic or demanding, but its oldest words still have something to say to our most contemporary struggles, writes the host of the "Thoughts and Prayers" podcast.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of people gathered at the holiest Jewish prayer site in Jerusalem on Tuesday for the traditional priestly blessing. The “Birkat Cohanim,” or Cohen’s blessing, is a ...

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 ...

Every Saturday morning, I walk over a mile to an Orthodox synagogue in Georgetown for Sabbath morning services. Once there, I participate in the prayer service, which is conducted, consistent with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

New data reveals Israeli youth are adopting more religious practices, increasing prayer and belief in God, as right-wing ...