Every Saturday morning, I walk over a mile to an Orthodox synagogue in Georgetown for Sabbath morning services. Once there, I participate in the prayer service, which is conducted, consistent with the ...

Thousands of Jewish worshippers gathered at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall for the traditional priestly blessing prayer on Thursday. The "Birkat Cohanim", or Cohen's blessing, is a ritual dating back to ...

I have produced a recognizable body of scholarship on ancient Jewish and Christian prayers and hymns. During the formative period of biblical scholarship in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth ...

JERUSALEM — Tens of thousands of people gathered at the holiest Jewish prayer site in Jerusalem on Tuesday for the traditional priestly blessing prayer. The “Birkat Cohanim,” or Cohen’s blessing, is a ...

What happens when “an Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, a Sephardic Chief Rabbi and a future Nobel Prize winning author walk into a café?” While such a dream meeting never took place, what we do know is that ...