Spirituality

'Jews are Magic': Museum exhibit explores Jewish fascination with occultism

Jews Are Magic,” opening this month at YIVO’s Manhattan headquarters, explores the Jewish fascination with mysticism, fortune telling, amulets, psychics, and occult practices.

YIVO'S EDDY Portnoy, who curated the exhibit "Jews Are Magic," with a reproduction of a High Holiday card featuring a Jewish palm reader, Warsaw c. 1910.
Bishop of Porto Dom Manuel Linda speaking at the event with Dr. Jose Ribeiro e Castro, Dr. Luis Andrade and Gabriela Cantergi

Human rights group honors Jews, Christians, and Jerusalem

Old house versus a new house

Sinking, spooky feeling? A subsonic sound may be at fault

David Kosak.

David Kosak on cultivating hope as a discipline in a digitally saturated, emotionally complex world


The spiritual lives of Israeli teens

“Spirituality is a unique strength that fosters positive outcomes. It’s an important area of development that’s worth attending to,” Kor said.

DR. STEVEN TZVI PIRUTINSKY: ‘It’s an ongoing process. The growth matters.’

A healing spark

Asher and Ruthie Kaplan treat the physical and spiritual at Spark Body & Soul in Jerusalem.

THE KAPLANS named the spa by combining two words: Spa and ARK, an acronym of their names.

Ex-judge slammed for mocking former model's religious head covering

The former model, now keeping an observant Jewish lifestyle, hosted the Independence Day torch-lighting ceremony.

A Jewish woman lights candles during a pilgrimage to the El Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia

Not just for rabbis: Spiritual caregiving in Israel

"People’s sense of loneliness comes from lack of community, lack of meaning in life... When we come to the person, we do a spiritual assessment... What gives that person meaning in life?"

MARPEH FOUNDER and director Dr. Einat Ramon.

American Jews suspected of vandalizing crucifix near hasidic rabbi's grave

The crucifix was placed by Ukranian locals near the grave of the 18th-century founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement.

Jewish children at the lake where thousands of pilgrams gather for Rosh Hasahan Tashlich prayers in Uman, Ukraine, September 2016.

For my son on his bar mitzvah

“Ironically, because you have been blessed with such good fortune, your struggle in life becomes even harder. Your struggle is not to get but to be. To be is harder.”

‘I READ everything from Stephen King to Soren Kierkegaard.’

Shabbat candle-lighting times for Israel and U.S.

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Shabbat candles

A Tower of Light: Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman

I asked people where to find the yeshiva? The talmud torah? Where can I find the kids? They told me I would find them in the disco.”

Migdal Ohr founder Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman

PARASHAT VAYISHLAH: Timna – The price of rejection

Why should the chronicles of Esau interest someone learning the Bible?

‘JOSHUA FIGHTING Amalek,’ print from the Phillip Medhurst Collection of Bible illustrations at St. George’s Court.

IN PLAIN LANGUAGE: Crying for Judaism

When is the last time you cried for something Jewish?

A CANDIDATE for conversion, having successfully passed, tearfully recites the ‘Shema’ prayer.