Spirituality

Sinking, spooky feeling? A subsonic sound may be at fault

Researchers say low-frequency sound from wind, ventilation, and creaking beams can trigger fear, dizziness, and a sensed presence.

Old house versus a new house
David Kosak.

David Kosak on cultivating hope as a discipline in a digitally saturated, emotionally complex world

Six new Israeli Reform rabbis, all women, were ordained last year at the Hebrew Union College Taube Family Campus in Jerusalem.

Female rabbi on healing Israel: Authority means service, not power - opinion

A Hanukkah menorah.

Terror down under: Why terrorists pick Jewish holidays for antisemitic attacks - opinion


Ex-judge slammed for mocking former model's religious head covering

The former model, now keeping an observant Jewish lifestyle, hosted the Independence Day torch-lighting ceremony.

A Jewish woman lights candles during a pilgrimage to the El Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia

Not just for rabbis: Spiritual caregiving in Israel

"People’s sense of loneliness comes from lack of community, lack of meaning in life... When we come to the person, we do a spiritual assessment... What gives that person meaning in life?"

MARPEH FOUNDER and director Dr. Einat Ramon.

American Jews suspected of vandalizing crucifix near hasidic rabbi's grave

The crucifix was placed by Ukranian locals near the grave of the 18th-century founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement.

Jewish children at the lake where thousands of pilgrams gather for Rosh Hasahan Tashlich prayers in Uman, Ukraine, September 2016.

For my son on his bar mitzvah

“Ironically, because you have been blessed with such good fortune, your struggle in life becomes even harder. Your struggle is not to get but to be. To be is harder.”

‘I READ everything from Stephen King to Soren Kierkegaard.’

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A Tower of Light: Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman

I asked people where to find the yeshiva? The talmud torah? Where can I find the kids? They told me I would find them in the disco.”

Migdal Ohr founder Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman

PARASHAT VAYISHLAH: Timna – The price of rejection

Why should the chronicles of Esau interest someone learning the Bible?

‘JOSHUA FIGHTING Amalek,’ print from the Phillip Medhurst Collection of Bible illustrations at St. George’s Court.

IN PLAIN LANGUAGE: Crying for Judaism

When is the last time you cried for something Jewish?

A CANDIDATE for conversion, having successfully passed, tearfully recites the ‘Shema’ prayer.

Following King David's lead: The artist Baruch Nachshon

Reciting King David’s Psalms, Nachshon got more than he asked for. The painter experienced an ecstatic state, a glimpse of what he describes as the perfection of the universe.

ARTIST BARUCH NACHSHON painting in his studio.

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