Esty Zippel and her sister Cheli have created My Torah Tales, a personalized story book experiences for children.

The traditional response to finishing the Torah — “Strong, strong may we be strengthened” — was a balm in a terrifying moment, writes a mother and writer. JERUSALEM (JTA) — I was chanting from the ...

Simmy Cohen hoped his original video would resonate with other Orthodox Jews — but it quickly found a much broader audience. (JTA) — Simmy Cohen has hardly read from the Torah since his bar mitzvah.

Why do we need to tell our kids that they can’t do important things for their own sake, but only to get some kind of reward? The notion of manicures for middle school girls in a Jewish school disturbs ...

I wish parenting were as easy as laying out important values and acting on them. Or even as easy as the chassidic rebbe who explained to his devotees why he let his son play in the back of shul during ...

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

I was chanting from the Torah in synagogue when the first siren went off. It was the morning of Simchat Torah, the holiday celebrating our commitment to read the entire Torah over the year, starting ...