(JTA) — I live in one of the most concentrated Jewish communities in the United States, the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and I no longer have a daily morning minyan to attend in person. It seems that ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

This year, at Congregation Agudath Sholom in Stamford, CT, where I reside, congregants had the choice of davening at one of five different minyanim on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. There was the ...

Sometimes, when you do what’s best for yourself, it helps others, too. Manya Treece, who lives in the West Town area, was looking for a nearby place to pray and, finding none that fit the bill, ...

To read David Suissa’s column on The Happy Minyan, click here. In his book “Tzava’at Harivash,” Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism, writes: “Serve God with reverence and with ...

On the other side of the old wood fence in the rear of my parents’ Los Angeles backyard I could hear a young man reading from the Torah, and people reciting kaddish, and everything else that ...

Not long ago, I decided to pay a visit to the Kotel for early morning services, which many people know is not as easy as it might seem. There are usually no scheduled services in the various areas of ...