Last week, Rav Herschel Schachter published a teshuva, a responsum, essentially stating that if there is a contradiction between “din” and “minhag,” between a strict halacha and a custom, that the ...

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The Jewish festival of Sukkot begins at sundown Wednesday. The sukkah, or temporary dwelling, symbolizes the huts that God told Moses to build for shelter in the desert when he led the Jews out of ...

Some 200 Jewish women from all four major branches of Judaism, and nearly every political ilk and age group, filled the Bnai Zion hall here Monday morning, where they conducted a full Shacharit ...

A new “shacharit club” at Kantor King Solomon High School is enjoying growing popularity among students. The Redbridge school, where most pupils come from other faiths, had not held morning Jewish ...