Families

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,...

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...

Jerry Weiner and David Solis go through the process a second time Huntington Valley resident Jerry Weiner and Jenkintown’s David Solis are 92 and 95,...

Right after Adi Ozery and her husband Boaz moved to the United States in 2020, the pandemic broke out. With their family and friends...

People have different reasons for joining Congregation Brothers of Israel, but ultimately they have the same reason. The congregants at the Conservative synagogue in Newtown...

For baby boomers whose kids are older now, synagogue is less of a necessity. They do not need a preschool, a religious school and...

The New York Times reported in February a prediction from the trade group Wedding Report that about 2.5 million weddings would “take place” this...

A May 2021 Pew Research Center study revealed that younger Jews in the United States were more likely than older generations to migrate to...

Congregation Beth Israel, a Reconstructionist synagogue in Media, has focused on social justice in its community activity for years. But in 2020 after the murder...

When Jerome P. David was 11 or 12 years old, he convinced his parents to join a synagogue. He doesn’t remember the exact reason...