(JTA) — I live in one of the most concentrated Jewish communities in the United States, the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and I no longer have a daily morning minyan to attend in person. It seems that ...

Each morning and each evening, the people of the daily minyan gather to recite the obligatory prayers. It isn’t exciting. The melodies aren’t particularly uplifting. Sometimes there is a word of ...

For Orthodox men, the commitment to recite Kaddish with a minyan multiple times a day for 11 months can be logistically challenging. For Birnbach, it was herculean. My first thought when I read the ...

In the beginning of March, before the full impact of COVID-19 began to descend upon our country, and our consciousness, when it was still possible to speak about it seriously-but-also-lightly, I gave ...

“Yitgadal v’yitkadash…” the words of the Kaddish have echoed through synagogues for centuries, traditionally intoned by a Jewish man in mourning during a prayer service, with nine other men — at ...

(RNS) — The 30-minute morning minyan offered through the Los Angeles-based IKAR Synagogue has become the primary form of community and prayer for a group of Jews from around the world.