Why a High Holidays prayer book is still going strong after 70 years
by Yosef Lindell (JTA) — When a local Orthodox synagogue asked me to lead Yom Kippur prayers six years ago, one aspect of the request…
Religion
Rabbi Matthew Ponak asks: Can a pig be kosher?
by Rabbi Matthew Ponak (AJNews) – Many Jews today carry guilt for not being more “religious.” Many of us, consciously or unconsciously, hold up ritually…
From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: The fascination with vaccination
By Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – Rabbi Pinhas Elijah Hurwitz was an itinerant Lithuanian scholar whose travels took him to Galicia, Poland, Prussia, Holland, Hungary and…
Little Synagogue on the Prairie brings Jewish history to life in Calgary
By Jeremy Appel (AJNews) – Visitors to Calgary’s Heritage Park living history museum will find an important piece of Jewish-Canadian and western Canadian history —…
From the Sources: Drifting above the Law
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – Until the previous American administration, many of us simply accepted the premise that nobody is above the law as a…