Joy here is not simply an emotion. It is an act of will. The harvest has come in. The work is done. There is no changing the ...

Words can be broken just like eggs when they have carelessly been dropped, and when they’re scrambled they fall like dancers ...

I find it spiritually uplifting and emotionally calming to observe Sukkot so close to the Holy Days. The liturgy of Yom ...

The sukkah reminds us to go out into the world, especially when the comforts of insularity beckon us closer—to explore paths we have yet to take and seek journeys ready for wandering.

The Journal spoke with a dozen Israelis from California who are planning to travel to Israel for the election.

We decorate our sukkot for beauty and comfort; we roof them with branches, exposing ourselves to wind, rain, sun, stars. And, as our pasuk states, every ezrach, (citizen) of Israel must dwell in ...

A Jewish high school in Los Angeles has developed a program that encourages students to reclaim their lives from social media. It is changing the conversation.

Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem said Wednesday night that after undergoing lifesaving procedures in its trauma unit, Leiter underwent complex brain surgery lasting several hours along with ...

There should be a place for every Jew in our sukkah. And there should be a place for every Jew in our story. Rabbi Kalman ...

Most Jews who have sung "Eitz Chaim" over the past half-century probably never knew Portnoy. They did not know when he wrote ...

Ushpizin invite us to “welcome in our ancestral constellation and dwell amongst them.” This year, it’s Ushpizot, for the ...

To Rabbi Eleazar ben Judah of Worms (1176-1238), the medieval German pietist known as the Rokeach, the sukkah symbolized ...