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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 ...

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 ...

I lead services regularly as a ba’al tefilla on Shabbat, chagim, and the High Holiday – and occasionally read the megila and prepare the Shabbat leining in our community, too. It’s a skill for which I ...

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 falls on his performance and his ability to hold our ...

JOHANNESBURG — Every day for years, a tight-knit group of 12-15 men has gathered for morning prayers at the red-carpeted, oak wood-furnished synagogue in their Sandringham Gardens residence for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

About 30 people packed into the living room and dining room of the white stucco house Saturday as a Torah scroll was laid on the bimah and the gabbai prepared to summon a kohein for the first aliyah.