Synagogues – Excerpted

Prayer, Synagogues

“The decision of which siddur a congregation should use is both a significant choice for any congregation, and a choice whose importance should not be exaggerated”

The decision of which siddur a congregation should use is both a significant choice...

Jewish Community, Jewish Organizations, Synagogues

Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 May 2018

I have witnessed firsthand the benefits and challenges that synagogues face today. I have...

Jewish Community, Jewish Organizations, Synagogues

Religious leaders have no right to complain about intermarriage rates in the US when...

Alcoholic Drinks, America, Synagogues

Prohibition took effect in January, 1920, and, all at once, people really did stop...

Jewish Community, Synagogues

As the debate over women’s leadership roils among religious and secular alike, the rabbi’s...

Synagogues

One of the things I love most about attending synagogue is that people are...

Prayer, Synagogues

Prayer, whether seen as introspection or as a transcendent conversation with a divine God,...

Prayer, Synagogues

The synagogue’s primary function is what happens in its sanctuary, the space in which...

Jewish Community, Jewish Organizations, Rabbis, Synagogues

…an ongoing struggle that many rabbis and clergy of various faiths wage within themselves....

Jewish, Synagogues

On each Shabbat, many worshipers open their siddurim and proceed through the service with...