Thousands of young Jews around the globe, affiliated with the World Bnei Akiva movement, participated in a World Study Night in accordance with a Jewish tradition to stay up and learn on the night of ...

The participation in the learning during the night of Hoshana Rabbah (great salvation) that took place last night is an amazing phenomenon that will be researched. The basis for staying up all night ...

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But today we are not fearful. The very opposite! These are the days of our joy, the season of rejoicing. These are days when we sense the bounty of Your world, the richness of harvest, the wealth of ...

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(JNS) Hundreds of people gathered at the site of the Supernova music festival massacre for prayers, on the occasion of Hoshana Rabbah, exactly 24 hours before the Hebrew-date anniversary of the attack ...

Today people of the Jewish faith will celebrate Hoshana Rabbah with a special synagogue service. Hoshana Rabba is marked as the seventh day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot (a Jewish festival held in ...

One of the culinary traditions for Sukkot, particularly the last days of the week-long holiday, is to eat stuffed cabbage, known in Yiddish by many names, including holishkes, holiptses, prakes and ...

I was hoping to get through this holiday cycle without debating the mechitza — the wall that divides the genders in Orthodox shuls. I’ve committed to sampling all iterations of observance without ...

Hoshana Rabbah is, according to tradition, the day the judgment of Yom Kippur is sealed and finalized. There are some changes in the morning prayers. We circle the bima seven times with our lulav and ...