Judaism

It sometimes feels as if we are all b’midbar, in the wilderness.

It’s a new era at Beth Tikvah-B’nai Jeshurun in Erdenheim. In a May 17 email, the synagogue announced the hiring of a new senior rabbi...

Fred Cook, by his own admission, is a man in search of an identity. From his teenage years through his early 30s, he filled that...

Congregation B’nai Israel Ohev Zedek in Philadelphia turned 100 on May 22. Yet the Orthodox synagogue is “a very young shul now,” said Michael Bohm,...

The message of this week’s Torah portion, B’chukotai, is straightforward.

When it opened in 1999, Shir Ami’s community mikveh became just the second of its kind at a Reform synagogue in the United States. Today...

Eric Settle, a Main Line Reform Temple member since 1973 and the synagogue’s president from 2014 to 2016, described Rabbi David Straus’ mindset as...

This week’s parsha, Behar, places the Israelites, renewed from their freedom from Egyptian enslavement, at Mount Sinai.

When you are 5½-years-old, your half-birthday is a big event.

Congregation B’nai Jacob is a Conservative synagogue. But it is not just open to Conservative Jews. As the only synagogue in Phoenixville, it welcomes Jews...