After an exhaustive search that included input from the entire congregation, Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Synagogue in Wheeling has selected Rabbi Schachar Orenstein as its new rabbi.

Shir Perets is a Breaking News Writer and Editor at The Jerusalem Post. She grew up in central Israel and is a graduate of Bar-Ilan University, where she studied English literature and ...

Shir Ami had about 1,000 households in the early 2000s. But around 500 or a little more is still a high number that keeps the synagogue operating smoothly. “We’re stable, which is nice,” the rabbi ...

Shir Ami, a Reform synagogue in Newtown, has been galvanized by the Oct. 7 attacks. One of the congregation’s two rabbis, Eric Goldberg, said that since that day, the temple has been in constant ...

Question: Why do we read Shir HaShirim on Passover and more specifically the Sabbath of Passover? Also, being that it is one of the five Megillot, why don’t we recite a blessing over the reading of ...