On the top floor of SAR Academy in Riverdale, New York, a group of students at the Jewish day school gather for morning prayers. After the recitation of the first blessings, they sit quietly for five ...
Rabbi Shefa Gold thought she was inventing the practice of Hebrew chant back in the 1980s. Before entering rabbinical school late in that decade she had been a musician fascinated by the power of ...
Once a practice confined largely to the fringe, Jewish chanting is making inroads well beyond its roots in Jewish retreat centers and New Age spirituality. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (JTA) — In a darkened room ...
On any given morning at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston, a group of seventh- and eighth-graders can be found lying quietly beside one another on old baby quilts, basking in the ...
In my youth the Beatles, notably George Harrison, introduced us to Transcendental Meditation and a variety of other Eastern religious practices. Yoga had been popular long before, of course, so had ...
MEDIA – Beit Ayin presents two days (June 6 and 7) of introduction to Jewish music and spirituality for those of all faiths. With that in mind the event is not at one of our Main Line synagogues but ...