Even though the days are—even if infinitesimally—getting longer, and even though we might still be in the post-New Year’s glow, it is still [...]

Tonight we light the 8th candle of Hanukkah Here’s something interesting I learned this week: In Catholic tradition, the eight days from Christmas [...]

Tonight we light the 7th candle of Hanukkah Again, not the start of a stand-up routine, but what does a whale have to [...]

Tonight we light the 6th candle of HanukkahI love giving gifts. I actually prefer giving them for no occasion; I love seeing something [...]

In October of 2016, Rabbi David Zvi Kalman composed a prayer for voting—to be read alongside the Prayer for the United States [...]

If Fiddler on the Roof granted us perhaps the most well-known prayer for the government, the first one dates back to the prophet Jeremiah in [...]

Scholars have identified 12 Psalms, two of which appear in the Psalms of the Day, as a collection of the Psalms of [...]

While there is no official “Hump Day” in the weekly Shabbat cycle, Wednesday is—according to Hasidic tradition at least—a bit of a turning [...]

There is a tradition in many Orthodox communities to hold weddings on Tuesdays, the third day of the Jewish week. In the [...]