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Ellen Mussaf still remembers her little brother wearing a Jewish prayer shawl at his bar mitzvah at the age of 13. As a conservative Jewish female, Mussaf didn’t have a tallit or prayer shawl, ...

The gabbaim are back working at our shuls again! In March, when the shuls in our communities were forced to close their doors, the gabbaim unfortunately joined the ranks of the unemployed. When our ...

A few years ago, on the last Shabbat of Tammuz, I found myself suddenly and unexpectedly moved during morning davening. Josh, our Mussaf leader that day, was reciting the blessing for the new moon, as ...

Rabbi Shelley Goldman arrived at Kesher Israel Congregation in West Chester in July 2020. One month later, the pandemic forced the synagogue to become a virtual institution. So for much of her first ...

Maybe the most emotionally-charged of all the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur prayers is וּנְתַנֶּה תֹּקֶף, U-netanneh Tokef, which appears in the Mussaf (Additional Service) of both: “We hereby ...

HARRISBURG--Tow truck enforcement at the Uptown Plaza has triggered a lawsuit that seeks class-action status against Mid-Atlantic Auto Recovery Service, PennLive has learned. Ellen Mussaf, 72, who ...

After mussaf on the first day of Shavuot, Rabbi Dovid Lewis held a baby blessing service at Newcastle United Hebrew Congregation. As well as blessing his own baby, Tzivia, he also blessed Benjamin ...

During holidays, there is an additional Mussaf prayer after the morning services, a second Priestly Blessing every day. Birkat Kohanim, the Priestly Blessing, is held in the Western Wall during Hol ...

For the benefit of morethodoxy readers I am publishing a Kavvanah guide that I will use in my shul this Rosh Hashana. So many are drustrated when the High Holiday prayers are not inspiring. This ...