Monthly Jewish Value: Devotion in Prayer
By Kathy BloomfieldPrayer means a lot of different things to different people; to me it’s sending a message of heartfelt gratitude to God. For example,...
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Jews About Town: Keshet's Tefillin Workshop
Keshet hosted a tefillin laying workshop, creating a safe space for discussion and exploration of laying tefillin as a method of prayer. A group of...
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Praying for Gilad Shalit
This evening—October 18, 2011—the fourth day of hol hamo’eid Sukkot, there was a palpable change during our evening minyan. Since Gilad Shalit was kidnapped by...
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Occupy Judaism Gains Support, Recognition at Occupy Boston
The major holidays have come and gone, and Jewish Bostonians are hanging up their Simchat Torah dancing shoes, putting their Sukkot into storage, and beginning...
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Aleinu & Judy Chicago
Take a look at this prayer. It's the second paragraph of the Aleinu prayer, said at the end of every Jewish prayer service: Therefore we...
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Judaism & Spirituality
Pursuing Tiferet - the Jewish version of zen
by Susan Cetlin Creating different Jewish pathways for Tiferet תפארת - the Jewish mystical concept of beauty, balance, integration and compassion - has been the focus...
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Humanistic Acts of Prayer
Have you ever been asked a question that seemed to come out of nowhere? One of those questions would be, “What about God?” And I...
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Never Underestimate Prayer's Effect on Children
Never underestimate what an almost 3-year-old can absorb even when it comes to prayer.On Saturday night, my son’s eyes widened, and he suddenly stopped playing...
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Renowned Cantor, Composer Hirschhorn Teaches Humility
My understanding of Hebrew is limited. Rarely do I get the time to intensely learn the meaning of a single prayer. Recently, a renowned cantor...
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Returning Ourselves: A meditation on Selichot
This Saturday night many Ashkenazi Jews will begin reciting a series of prayers called "Selichot." Sephardic Jews already started reciting them a few weeks ago...
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