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Volunteers of all ages came together to give back to the community through a variety of hands-on mitzvah projects.

As the high holidays approach, there has never been a better time to create a Chesed Fund account and start fundraising for your cause. Traditionally, this is the time of year when people engage in ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

Lot’s story is a warning for every generation: chesed without understanding deceives the heart and misleads the hand. We see it clearly today.

Very often, Rosh Hashana comes along and I find myself thinking: How did the month of Elul come and go so quickly – I feel that I did not utilize my time adequately to prepare myself to stand before ...

We hope you’ll join us for our November events! This month, our whole community is invited to celebrate Shabbat for Good—a ...

For many of us, the month of Elul and the High Holy Days are our personal and communal time for introspection. The work we do for ourselves as Jews is significant as we take the opportunity to make ...

This is the second story in our Holy Ground series about congregations at crossroads. WHITE OAK, PENNSYLVANIA — Every Friday morning, Alan Iszauk returns to the building where he became a man. Sixty ...

(JTA) — Activist and Harvard professor Cornel West used the “chesed,” Hebrew for kindness, during a Bernie Sanders campaign event in New Hampshire. “We got a deep Jewish brother named Bernie Sanders ...

Congregation Ansche Chesed, a prominent Conservative synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, prides itself on being a “diverse community” that offers its members a “rich array of programming.” But ...