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


Imeinu Doulas: Providing spiritual support to prospective, new Jewish mothers

Imeinu Doulas began modestly with a team of Jewish doulas, companions who are trained to care for and offer support to women in childbirth.

Pregnant woman (Illustrative)

Rapper Nissim Black opens up about creative process and COVID recovery

Nissim Black is in love with the creator of the universe, with whom he has an intimate and fierce connection.

Nissim Black in a field wearing traditional Hasidic garb. (Tziporah Litman/Courtesy of Black)

Jewish prayer - Alone and together in Jerusalem during the pandemic

Praying for an end to this the 21st century twilight zone where we are alone and together simultaneously.

‘Backyard prayer’ by Leah Raab

No business like shul business

Everything has changed now that synagogues reopened with small minyanim and no Kiddush served.

Joseph Scutts carries a new Torah at the Heichal Ephraim and Bertin Synagogue in Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim neighborhood

Choices are critical to our happiness and future

Reflections: “A bird does not sing because it has an answer, It sings because it has a song.”

‘WHAT’S IMPORTANT when you lose, is not to lose the lesson.’

Zoom Judaism helps us in crisis - Opinion

This moment offers the Jewish community an opportunity to reconnect with home Jewish practice.

ORTHODOX Jews in prayer

Coronavirus has a spiritual effect

Side by side with the awesome power of the human spirit is the existential vulnerability of the human condition.

Magen David Adom worker test kit as he arrives for a patient with symptoms of COVID-19 (coronavirus), in Jerusalem on March 17, 2020

Seeing hidden miracles and joy during the month of Adar

Dr. Wayne Dyer said, “Don’t die with your music still in you.”

ESTHER’S TRANSFORMATION begins when she steps up to her role as queen.  (Pictured: Queen Mary’s Crown,

Shvat: The month of self-nurture

At this time of year, the nights are still longer than the days, but we have turned the corner on this. The darkness that prevails at night is beginning to lessen.

‘THE PROCESS of renewal is now, the month of Shvat, when it is all happening within the tree.’

A math loving, star-gazing mystic - the Vilna Gaon reexamined

2020 marks 300 years since we were gifted with the extraordinary Torah mind of the Vilna Gaon.

Vilna Gaon