On the Shabbat of June 10 at Temple Ramat Zion, Rebecca Diamond attained a goal achieved by few laypersons, and even fewer women: With her husband, David, and sons Jacob and Rafii looking on from the ...

Chanting in front of her and the nurses really tested my courage. I came to chanting Torah by accident. Before I began to study trope, I hadn’t sung alone in front of people since tryouts for a high ...

In our school, each class begins every day with tefillot, a morning service. During our first grade tefillot, we take our Sefer Torah out of the Aron Kodesh for a brief Torah service every Monday and ...

When Gavriel Kedem became a bar mitzvah, he was focused on the usual things: chanting the parsha, giving his dvar, the people watching. He wasn’t thinking about it as a historic moment. But it was — ...

(JTA) Simmy Cohen has hardly read from the Torah since his bar mitzvah. When he’s not working at his marketing job from his home in Queens, New York, Cohen spends far more time these days reading ...

(RNS) — A few years ago, the Conservative congregation of 900 families overlooking Lake Michigan took on a challenge. This past year 210 laypeople stepped up. HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (RNS) — Growing up in ...

The age old stories of the Torah will come to life during Shabbat Services on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 4 and 5, when Congregation Beth El welcomes the visionary Jewish performing group, Storahtelling ...