Spirituality

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

A woman rabbi in Israel reflects on leadership, feminism, and spiritual responsibility in a wounded nation

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

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

 Neanderthal communities in prehistoric Europe. How were they linked? (Illustrative)

Neanderthals were selectively targeted for cannibalism in Ice Age Europe, study reveals - study

Former hostage Bar Kupershtein and dozens of Jewish men lay tefillin at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, October 31, 2025.

Israel’s ‘thirsty souls’: Why we should welcome Jews experiencing a spiritual renaissance - opinion


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

Parashat Chayah Sarah: Prayers- Self-confidence, acceptance and despair

Our nation’s three daily prayers are among the important legacies we received from the fathers of the nation.

‘IN EVERY situation, in any state we’re in, we can open our hearts and talk to our Creator.’ (

Jewish spirituality at meditation retreats across the world

“Meditation was something I was aware of, but I hadn’t engaged in it at all at that time,” Jacobson-Maisels says.

Spirituality together on a recent retreat