Strengthening Jewish identity is our most powerful response to and protection from antisemitism. It is how we have endured ...

I grew up praying to a god in a language I did not understand. In particular, as an observant Conservative Jewish American (that is, “Conservative Jewish, not “conservative, Jewish”), I grew up ...

Eli Sharabi was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7th, and taken hostage by Hamas. Sharabi had never recited the Shema. Until he was in Gaza. Even though he was never a religious man ...

Tens of thousands of Jews around the world joined in a collective recitation of the Shema prayer on Thursday that was broadcast from Jerusalem’s Western Wall to support the more than 130 Israeli ...

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 ...

Parashat Va’etchanan includes one of the best-known sentences in the Torah, “Shema Yisrael, Hashem Eloheinu, Hashem Echad ” (Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One; Deuteronomy 6:4).