When Oleg Rostovtsev hovered between life and death after a serious operation last April, he asked friends and family to do ...

The Premiers’ Reading Challenge begins on the first Monday in March each year and ends on the first Friday in September. In 2025, registrations will open on Monday 3 March, 2025. The Challenge ...

The Little Mountain fire erupted Wednesday in San Bernardino County. (San Bernardino County Fire Protection District) ‘To call this a crime of violence is quite the understatement’: Judge ...

Who couldn’t use a miracle right about now? After weeks of parties and packages, planning and platters, the world returns to something vaguely normal. Our waistlines are bigger and our to-do lists are ...

The ritualized, singsong reading from Torah scrolls called cantillation, learned by Jewish boys (and girls) when they come of age, is a part of services on Shabbat and holidays, with truncated ...

Isska in a photo for Paster’s Washington Post article. Photo by Heidi Paster This sparked the creation of Torah Tropical, a documentary that follows a family of Colombian converts to Orthodox ...

Several key mistakes could throw off the accuracy of blood pressure readings for people who take them at home. The average "normal" blood pressure is 120/80, according to the American Heart ...

Reading alone is a deeply enjoyable activity. But being read to has its own irreplaceable allure. By Melissa Kirsch The Harvard Sentences are hundreds of sentences that have been used for many ...

or join a storybook reading and dance lesson inspired by the game of dreidel. At sundown, join your light with ours for a unique candle lighting that celebrates community and hope. Celebrate the ...

Happy Hanukkah, Los Angeles! Hanukkah begins the evening of December 25 th, 2024 at sundown and lasts for eight nights, during which time it is customary to eat Latkes, or potato pancakes, along with ...

To find the best reading glasses, I was particularly eager to dive into the research, having recently acquired my first pair. My top pick overall: GlassesUSA, which offers the widest range of ...

Its destruction revealed a mural — covered by renovations and completely forgotten— that seems to illustrate Jews wandering the desert with their Torah. Photo by Patrick Wright It’s true ...