For months, I had put off this trip to pick up my father’s bimah chair — a seat of honor for a synagogue’s rabbi on the bimah, the podium of the synagogue’s sanctuary. For months I had ...

When they talk about undecided voters, they're talking about my congregation,” said one rabbi in Las Vegas. “I've never had ...

He has mentored more than two dozen rabbis who have assisted him on the bimah, and through his rabbinic seminary, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, Weiss has trained more than 80 rabbinic leaders committed ...

Rather than dancing seven revolutions around the bimah, they subsequently danced only three. Some suggest that the pogrom occurred after the third dance that Simchat Torah, hence the curtailed ...

Rather than dancing seven revolutions around the bimah, they danced only three. Some suggest that the pogrom occurred after the third dance that Simchat Torah, hence the curtailed dance program.

Cantor Sarah Bollt, Beth El Phoenix’s newest clergy member, didn’t envision becoming a cantor growing up. Instead, she wanted ...

The New Synagogue drew inspiration for its renovations from Rhode Island's Touro Synagogue, the oldest Jewish temple in the ...

The children, without being asked, came to the bimah and all of them — it must have been about 30 or 40 children — started to ...

We spoke to clergy who lead communities where there’s political diversity in the pews, a mix of Democrats and Republicans.

RELATED: Chabad Jews celebrate at 5,000-square-foot sukkah in New York Chanting Torah from the bimah, the synagogue’s stage, is one of the few ceremonial roles available to laypeople.

While most new readers are presented with a cookie at the bimah upon their first reading, the 200th reader received a gigantic cookie. When it comes to getting people to read Torah, it takes a team.

Just as preteens are gaining a greater desire for independence, they begin the sometimes overwhelming task of preparing for ...