In 2023, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts opened a permanent Judaica gallery, the country’s third at a general — read: non-Jewish — institution. A year later, Houston’s MFA followed suit. And, just last ...

So how do you make a kiddush that people will talk about for years to come? Here are some ideas to start your creative kiddush juices flowing like grape juice! Serious congregations don’t schmooze ...

Sanctifying Sabbath and holidays with special blessings over wine. Kiddush, which means holiness, is the prayer over wine (or grape juice) that sanctifies Shabbat and holidays. Traditionally, Kiddush ...

When Prohibition was repealed in 1933, the emergency ended, but grape juice didn’t disappear. What began as a crisis response ...

While kiddush is traditionally recited over wine, other beverages can be used. An Open Door for Everyone. On Sukkot, guests are welcomed into the sukkah — a tradition of hospitality that's central to ...

This month I celebrated a milestone birthday (I am now enrolled in Medicare … yup, it’s that milestone birthday!), and my wife asked me what I wanted to celebrate the occasion. Without hesitation, I ...

Tears blurred my own eyes as I looked at the person who had endured for so long, and now chanted these holy words with such feeling, in our sukkah, so many years later. I wrote this reflective piece ...

The Toledo Museum of Art has acquired an 11th–12th century Afghan Kiddush cup for $4 million, a record for a Judaica ceremonial object. Known as the “Cup of Joy,” the hammered silver vessel blends ...

There was someone who had walked out of the sanctuary of the shul to where the other men were making kiddush. This time, however, someone began to berate him: “You don’t come here to daven! You come ...

It’s the first time the Biblical Museum of Natural History has held a kiddush in any animal’s honor. (JTA) — Shayna and Cuddles are unlike many new parents in Israel, in that they are pythons. But ...

A kiddush cup that may have been passed around the Friday night dinner table during the reign of Ghengis Khan will be available for auction this fall. The rare remnant of the Silk Road, the ancient ...

There are those who Kvetch after Maariv on Motzai Yom Kippur and say, “Really? Another five minutes for Kiddush Levana? I really want to break my fast!” But the Ramah does write (Siman 602), “We do ...