In January 2021, Daniel Grand invited a small group of neighbors to his home for Shabbat prayer services - a minyan, the quorum of ten men that Jewish law requires for communal worship.

The minyan, run by a group of 10 volunteer staff, attracts hundreds of participantsPeter Berkowsky (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — On Sunday, for the 36th time, Peter Berkowsky will wake up at 3:00 a ...

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Best known for the unexpectedly soul-shattering San Francisco suicide doc “The Bridge,” indie filmmaker Eric Steel came out and came of age in 1980s New York at a moment just before AIDS devastated ...

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Some rabbis are encouraging internet-based solutions to hold us over, but a campus rabbi writes that those solutions could come with a significant cost. WALTHAM, Mass. (JTA) — Like so many others, I ...

The Crown Heights community gathered for a moving and joyous Hachnasas Sefer Torah at Friendship Circle of Brooklyn’s Center, ...

It took nearly an hour for the rabbi to write the first word of Genesis: "Bereishit," which is Hebrew for "in the beginning." As he finished each letter, drawn with a quill dipped in ink, the crowd in ...

To read David Suissa’s column on The Happy Minyan, click here. In his book “Tzava’at Harivash,” Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism, writes: “Serve God with reverence and with ...