The congregation, which according to the newspaper has nearly 1,000 children, decided it would create a special large prayer shawl for the occasion rather than have the tallitot of many men held up ...
(JTA) — Some farms allow visitors to pick their own fruit. Some franchises let you make your own pizza. At a synagogue in New Jersey, you can make your prayer shawl and other woven Judaica items, ...
The prayer shawl, the size of 40 regular tallitot, was first used for a Simchat Torah celebration at the Boca Raton Synagogue in 2013. (JTA) — A synagogue in Boca Raton, Fla., has set a world record ...
On a recent Saturday morning, at Congregation Mogen David’s Ashkenazic Shabbat service, a blond-haired girl in a shimmery pink sundress tugged at the fringes of a man’s tallit (prayer shawl). The ...
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, ...
Click to open image viewer. A black prayer shawl (tallit gadol) with a repeating pattern of nine, embroidered, seven-branched menorahs lined across each end. Strips of white grosgrain ribbon have been ...
Recently Congregation Or Atid celebrated a special Shabbat service to honor Rabbi Sally Finestone on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of her ordination from Hebrew Union College. Many members of ...