Everyone who says kaddish for a parent for the full 11 months required by Jewish tradition has stories. Most people have at least one story of being welcomed at a synagogue far from home, feeling ...

The best way to find this prayer service is to follow the sound of lute music coming from upstairs in this Westside Jewish community center. Sports trophies decorate the room, but they begin to look ...

In Eric Steel's understated narrative debut, 'The Inheritance' discovery Samuel H. Levine plays a closeted young man tentatively exploring his identity in Brighton Beach's insular Jewish community.

This is our editor-in-chief’s weekly newsletter. Click here to get it delivered to your inbox on Friday afternoons. The breakfast spread after Tuesday’s morning minyan at Temple Emanuel in Newton, ...

In January 2021, Daniel Grand invited a small group of neighbors to his home for Shabbat prayer services - a minyan, the quorum of ten men that Jewish law requires for communal worship.

Don’t call them synagogues. They are minyanim, or spiritual communities. They have evolved from shared and individual dreams and from serendipitous, profound and beshert connections. They are new, ...

Samuel H. Levine plays a gay Brooklyn teenager navigating the conflicts of sexual discovery with his cultural background in a Russian Jewish community in 'Minyan,' Eric Steel's layered drama set in ...