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Judaism

Everything you need to know about Judaism and being Jewish: the weekly Torah portion, Jewish holidays, Jewish rituals and more.

Israeli kids plant trees for the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat in Haifa on February 9, 2017. Tu Bishvat is also called literally "New Year of the Trees." In contemporary Israel the day is celebrated as an ecological awareness day and trees are planted in celebration.

Tu Bishvat, the New Year for trees: What is it and how is it celebrated?
Shabbat candles

Shabbat candle-lighting times for Israel and US
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
SO TOO should people clearly express their desires regarding end-of-life treatment.

How does Jewish law cover healthcare proxies, living wills?
By SHLOMO M. BRODY
IT IS believed that about 22 million people from Christian backgrounds are expressing a new openness to Torah.

Parashat Beshalach: Learning to sing
By DAVID WOLPE
THE STORY ends with the familiar Parting of the Red Sea

Parashat Beshalach: Just be strong and have courage!
By SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
SEASONAL DRAWING, Ze’ev Raban, ‘Moadim.’

Tu Bishvat: Planting trees in Israel
By DAVID GEFFEN
MANY PIOUS Jews hold a Tu Bishvat Seder, an ancient tradition upheld in Safed. Pictured: Seder in Meron, last January.

Tu Bishvat: There's Jewish tradition in trees
By DVORA WAYSMAN
PROTESTERS GATHER outside the Chief Rabbinate offices in Jerusalem, against the Rabbinate’s 2016 disqualification of American rabbis’ conversions

Majority of Israeli public believes conversion process needs a change
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Chief rabbis gathered to discuss reforms to the conversion and kashrut system

Kahana submits Jewish conversion reform bill to Knesset
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
1,200-year-old siddur dates back to first half of 9th century AD.

A trans Jew has created a nonbinary, open-source prayer book that aims to include all
By Jaz Twersky/ JTA
Image of the virtual Chabad house.

Will Chabad enter the metaverse?
By Rivka Hellendall
Shabbat candles

Shabbat candle-lighting times for Israel and US
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Illustrative.

Parashat Bo: Our story
By MOSHE TARAGIN
NOT TAKEN into account – the people who made the mixers, bowls and ovens essential to baking the cake.

Can we reconcile science and facts with the Torah?
By AHARON E. WEXLER
‘THE SEVENTH Plague of Egypt’ (1823) by English Romantic painter John Martin

Parashat Bo: The conundrum of darkness
By DAVID WOLPE
A LAMB bleats after separation from its mother

Parashat Bo: The victory of the poor man’s lamb
By SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
RALLYING FOR Soviet Jewry in the US, Simhat Torah, 1983.

Saving Jews from persecution: The lesson from my bar mitzvah - opinion
By JONATHAN FELDSTEIN
THE IRAQI Central Synagogue, nicknamed The Pyramid.

So many synagogues: Beersheba
By JACOB SOLOMON
Maghain Aboth Synagogue

A new museum tells the story of Singapore’s Jews, starting with their Baghdad roots
By Jordyn Haime/JTA
Rabbi Benayahu Brunner

Storm sparked as Tzohar rabbi recommended to head Conversion Authority
By TZVI JOFFRE
From left to right: Yad La'Isha Rabbinical Court Advocate and Attorney Tehilla Cohen, Orly Vital, and Pnina Omer, Director of Yad La’Isha

Chained woman finally freed from marriage after near 14-year struggle
By Rivka Hellendall
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