(JTA) Tens of thousands of Jews around the world joined in a collective recitation of the Shema prayer on Thursday, March 21 that was broadcast from Jerusalem’s Western Wall to support the more than ...

Why did the Sages decide to add this particular paragraph about Tzitzit, out of the entire Torah, to the central prayer of ...

The Shema bookends Yom Kippur. It is dramatically said at Yom Kippur’s onset. While the sentence Baruch Shem Kevod which follows Shema is normatively said quietly, on Yom Kippur it is said aloud.

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Shema Yisrael, or the Shema, is the central affirmation of Judaism. The prayer expresses belief in the singularity of God, that is, in God's oneness and incomparability. Though this opening verse is ...

The Jewish world will come together for an hour of Jewish unity and to read the sacred prayer of Kriat Shema on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. Israel time (10:30 a.m. EST) for the release of the hostages and ...

One of my earliest memories is of reciting the Shema each Sunday morning in heder. Although I didn’t come from a religious family – we were more your traditional three-times-a-year shul-goers – and I ...

Shir Siegel, daughter of Keith Siegel, one of the hostages recently freed from Hamas captivity, spoke in an interview with Yinon Magal on Channel 14 on Wednesday about her father’s difficult ordeal ...

A video posted to social media shows an IDF commander in the Gaza Strip reciting the Shema prayer before detonating a series of buildings and claiming one of them is a mosque. “This is the commander,” ...