The minyan, run by a group of 10 volunteer staff, attracts hundreds of participantsPeter Berkowsky (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — On Sunday, for the 36th time, Peter Berkowsky will wake up at 3:00 a ...

Best known for the unexpectedly soul-shattering San Francisco suicide doc “The Bridge,” indie filmmaker Eric Steel came out and came of age in 1980s New York at a moment just before AIDS devastated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When grandpa needs a place to live and his congregation needs a tenth man, what’s a good Jewish boy to do? For a mensch like David ...

Some rabbis are encouraging internet-based solutions to hold us over, but a campus rabbi writes that those solutions could come with a significant cost. WALTHAM, Mass. (JTA) — Like so many others, I ...

In Eric Steel’s Minyan, the documentary filmmaker’s beautifully observed debut feature, a young gay man seeks to reconcile his growing self-awareness with the traditions of his Orthodox Jewish family.

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This review of “Attica” was first published on October 18. Actor Samuel H. Levine is at the center of “Minyan” — a first-time narrative feature by director Eric Steel — and the whole film stands or ...

It took nearly an hour for the rabbi to write the first word of Genesis: "Bereishit," which is Hebrew for "in the beginning." As he finished each letter, drawn with a quill dipped in ink, the crowd in ...

To read David Suissa’s column on The Happy Minyan, click here. In his book “Tzava’at Harivash,” Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism, writes: “Serve God with reverence and with ...

Back in 1971, a group of young married rabbinical school graduates with small children requested a meeting with Rabbi Jacob Pressman of Temple Beth Am. Many of them had just moved back to Los Angeles ...

We had a blizzard in Boston this weekend. Two feet of snow, howling winds. The works. The Works (photo: Avi Rockoff) The day before the storm, Sid turned to me at shacharit and said, “I was watching ...