Many Jews learned that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first Jewish woman on the Supreme Court, had passed while they were listening to Rosh Hashanah services.
The shofar is a hallmark of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. The pandemic means there will be more and smaller prayer gatherings this year, so some cities have offered free shofar-blowing courses.
The Jewish High Holidays begin tonight with the celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Rabbis share how their sermons will be shaped by this year's events.
As the Jewish High Holidays approach this weekend, some rabbis have requested sermons from the time of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic for inspiration as to what they will say.
Houses of worship are becoming more and more creative in how they meet during the coronavirus pandemic. At one congregation in downtown Sacramento, Mass involves a fire escape and an alleyway.
Their work and lives have been upended in this region devastated by the coronavirus, and where poverty and preexisting conditions like diabetes, hypertension and obesity are prevalent.
The racial justice movement asks what role white people should play in the struggle. Lenny Duncan's ministry tries to answer that question. He's a black pastor in the whitest denomination in the U.S.
Asbury Memorial Church in Savannah, which supports LGBTQ rights, announced Thursday that it would split with the United Methodists, becoming the first congregation in the country to do so.
The satirical weekly, whose Paris offices were stormed by Islamist extremists who killed several staff members, will reprint the controversial cartoons that apparently sparked the attack.