Days later, on Simchat Torah, the last of the sacred festivals in the Jewish High Holy Days, that is precisely what happened. What we prayed for so fervently — the homecoming of the hostages from ...

Inside that room, pale and fragile but alive, Yosef-Chaim Ohana — who had been held hostage in Gaza for 738 days — was ...

Tens of thousands of Jews around the world joined in a collective recitation of the Shema prayer on Thursday that was broadcast from Jerusalem’s Western Wall to support the more than 130 Israeli ...

Eli Sharabi was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7th, and taken hostage by Hamas. Sharabi had never recited the Shema. Until he was in Gaza. Even though he was never a religious man ...

I’ve always felt we recite the Shema three times a day as a reminder that actions have consequences. After the famous declaration of God’s singularity, the Shema tells us that if we obey God’s ...

Shema Yisrael, or the Shema, is the central affirmation of Judaism. The prayer expresses belief in the singularity of God, that is, in God's oneness and incomparability. Though this opening verse is ...

The Orlando Sings Choral Festival returns for its fourth year, featuring a trilogy of concerts that celebrate choral storytelling and the human spirit. The festival opens with Shema Koleinu (Hear Our ...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Schumer, the most senior Jewish elected official in U.S. history, recited the Shema prayer at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday. The New York Democrat added a reading ...