As we prepare to welcome spring (March 20) and Passover (April 12) and Easter (April 20). I offer up a prayer for remembering how our spring holidays divide us and unite us and how springtime makes ...

As the American-Israeli poet Marty Herskovitz thought about the upcoming Passover holiday, the prospect of singing “Dayenu” at the first seder since his country was attacked didn’t sit right with him.

“Sing, girl!” a member of the St. Brigid Catholic Church, an African American South L.A. based church, called out encouragingly from her seat in the synagogue pews, as a young vocalist, part of Temple ...

(JTA) As the American-Israeli poet Marty Herskovitz thought about the upcoming Passover holiday, the prospect of singing “Dayenu” at the first seder since his country was attacked didn’t sit right ...

After the Seder, sometime around midnightwhen everyone has said the grace after meals, the singing begins. People break out tunes like, “Echad Mi Yodea (Who Knows One)” and “Let My People Go.” For ...

A few weeks ago, after Purim, I was explaining to my sisters (who are not Jewish) about how we celebrate Purim.