Ritual Life

Aish Chaim Attracts Young Families

Aish Chaim does not own a building. For services and other weekend programs, the Modern Orthodox congregation rents space in the Jewish Family and Children’s...

TikTok Executive to Detail Judaism as Self-Help

Jewish TikTok executive Michal Oshman will appear virtually at Ohev Shalom of Bucks County on Nov. 14. to promote her self-help book, “What Would...
Two Yahrzeit candles are lit and glowing on a table.

Rituals Remain Despite COVID Death Surge

Joseph Levine & Sons Memorial Chapel in Trevose buried many more people this past year than previously. And Goldsteins’ Rosenberg’s Raphael-Sacks funeral home had...

Tree of Life Shooting Still Impacts US Jews

When a white supremacist shot and killed 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, 2018, it was “the...

Josh Shapiro Touts Jewish Values in Kickoff for Governor’s Race

At the end of his campaign kickoff speech on Oct. 13 at Penn State Abington, Josh Shapiro paraphrased a line from the Talmud. “My faith...

What Will It Take to Get Back in the Synagogue?

As more and more people become vaccinated against COVID-19, communities are grappling with what the next phase of reopenings will look like.  While some synagogues...

From Building an Ark to Vaccine Awareness: B’nai Mitzvah Plans Get Creative

Alexa Shurman realized in March 2020 that her bat mitzvah was not going to be the way she imagined. The Main Line Reform Temple congregant...