Pot luck kiddush. (credit: JUDITH SEGALOFF) If you don’t want the kids to raid the table before the “Kiddush” blessing is made, throw a tablecloth over the table and do a reveal as soon as the ...

Recently, as my mother’s yahrzeit – anniversary of her death – came around I wondered: Was I going to New York to pray at her gravesite and recite the kaddish, or was I going to Florida to pray with ...

The cup of blessing: The sacred Kiddush cup of a legendary hassidic master - opinion Rav Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev passed away in 1809, and his Kiddush cup has been passed down through the ...

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Two interesting comments have come from readers about [my November 25 column][1] on the Jewish toast “l’chaim,” which I traced back to a medieval custom, still practiced by Sephardic and Middle ...

Yeah, fasting for 25 hours is hard, but the hardest mitzvah of the year doesn’t come until after Yom Kippur is over. Right after. For those of us who have made it through several hours of prayer ...

The artifact has an estimated value of $3 million to $5 million. A kiddush cup that may have been passed around the Friday night dinner table during the reign of Ghengis Khan will be available for ...

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A kiddush cup that may have been passed around the Friday night dinner table during the reign of Ghengis Khan will be available for auction this fall. The rare remnant of the Silk Road, the ancient ...