My dear friend, Ralph Lane, wrote poetry in his retirement years. One such poem, entitled, “I Will Never Be a Mystic,” reads: “I will never be a mystic and to be honest, I am not really trying though ...

Though active in Judaism since his youth, it was only about four years ago that Dr. Samuel Axelrad added meditation to his religious life. "Jewish meditation doesn't mean you go off to a monastery and ...

(JTA) — Jonathan Omer-Man, a rabbi and pioneer in Jewish meditation whose meeting with the Dalai Lama in 1990 was described in Rodger Kamenetz’s best-selling book “The Jew in the Lotus,” died on ...

On any given morning at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston, a group of seventh- and eighth-graders can be found lying quietly beside one another on old baby quilts, basking in the ...

Clark County counselor Felice Lipkint called herself a "Jew Bu." Lipkint, who manages the county's employee assistance and organizational development office, said she grew up Jewish but turned to ...

If you haven't read Hebrew since the rite-of-passage ceremony known as the bar mitzvah, customarily conducted at the age of 13, then a willfully obscure text of ancient Jewish mysticism is probably ...

You’re not going to believe this: There are actually full-grown, college-educated Jewish human beings who are completely unaware of the existence of something called Jewish meditation! I believe it, ...

“You mean, no talking, like not at all?” my sister asked by phone during the two-hour drive to the Royal Way Spiritual Retreat Center in Lucerne Valley. “That’s intense.” It was June 2016, three years ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — Most Jewish religious schools begin the day with a traditional morning prayer. After that, students spend much of their time studying Talmud, the central text of Jewish law. But at ...

Last week I had the pleasure of driving from Jerusalem to Beit Shemesh with Rabbi David Samson, my co-editor on our new book, “Torat Eretz Yisrael Anthology,” a 700 page compilation of essays written ...