On the fifteenth of the month of Shevat we celebrate Rosh Hashana laalinot (the New Year for the trees) or Tu B’Shevat. Tu B’Shevat is a time of renewal; it is the Jewish equivalent of Arbor day ...

It’s not unusual for participants in Rosh Hodesh: It’s a Girl Thing!, a nationwide enrichment program for teenage Jewish girls, to jump from Judaic teachings to modern-day society. Even so, this may ...

Then comes Nisan, which in Jewish tradition marks the beginning of the religious year. That may surprise readers more ...

Following this tradition, when we recite this prayer before Rosh Hodesh, the lips of the deceased author of the prayer move. We ask God that our requests should be granted - not in the merit of our ...

A thin plot nevertheless affords an unusual and inviting glimpse of Mexican-flavored Hanukkah festivities as well as of Rosh Hodesh, or new moon, the first day of the month in the Jewish calendar.

Dr. Shifra Assulin is a graduate of Matan and was a fellow in the first cohort of Kitvuni writing on Shir HaShirim in the Zohar. Shifra has a Ph.D. in Jewish Thought and is a teaching fellow at Shalem ...