A divine call to action

By Rabbi Elazar Muskin
Published on March 14, 2013

Once, on a mission to Israel, we needed a minyan for a prayer service during the airplane flight. We were a total of six men in our group, so we began to scan the plane for the remaining four for the requisite 10 men.

Partnership Minyanim: A Follow Up Response to Rabbi Barry Freundel

By Rabbi Zev Farber
Published on March 7, 2013

A Torah falls, a shul bonds

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Published on September 27, 2012

There was a crack and a gasp and then a murmur that traveled in a wave back through the rows of seats at Temple Beth Am’s Library Minyan on the first day of Rosh Hashanah.

The Art of a Shiva Minyan

By Susan Esther Barnes
Published on August 8, 2012

The Santa Maria Minyan

Published on July 22, 2011

Located in the northern part of Santa Barbara County, but as distant from chic Santa Barbara as one can imagine, Santa Maria is a blue-collar town dotted with fast-food and barbecue joints. In recent years, its population, at least half of which is Latino, has mushroomed to 100,000, fueled by agribusiness — including vineyards and wineries — and the city’s other growing industries.

D I Y

By Rob Eshman
Published on November 26, 2008

There are good things we can only achieve together -- if we can first come together. It's not clear how we do this when 10 friends, some cash and a Web site are enough to create a Jewish world unto themselves.

VideoJew’s VideoGuide to L.A. #3—Jewish Los Angeles

Published on October 16, 2008

Dining, shopping, living, praying -- VideoJew Jay Firestone shows you how it's done Los Angeles-style.

VideoGuide to L.A. - Volume 3 - Jewish L.A.

By Jay Firestone
Published on October 16, 2008

Davening for Dollars

By Beverly Gray
Published on June 1, 2006

Talmud teaches that a righteous act is its own reward. But if that's not inducement enough, a rabbi in Woodland Hills is offering $10 cash plus a Krispy Kreme doughnut to teens who attend his 7 a.m. minyan.

Barbed Wire Fails to Separate Hearts

By Toby Klein Greenwald
Published on August 11, 2005

Almost every war has one photographic image that emerges and that remains ingrained in the public's mind -- and the media -- as the defining picture of that war.

New Prayer Communities Seek Spiritual High

By Jane Ulman
Published on August 19, 2004

Don't call them synagogues.

They are minyanim, or spiritual communities. They have evolved from shared and individual dreams and from serendipitous, profound and beshert connections. They are new, egalitarian, independent, warm, collaborative and vibrant.

And they are all led by female rabbis.

A Minyan of Our Own

By Leora Alhadeff
Published on September 18, 2003

Sitting behind a crocheted curtain, I desperately tried to peer through the tiny holes to get a glimpse of the action on the men's side.

Finally, I gave up, and pushed the curtain aside, and saw our chazan auctioning off portions of the services.

All Jews Count

By Rabbi Elazar Muskin
Published on July 15, 1999

It is a familiar sight. On each flight to Israel, in the back of the plane, a minyan gathers for services.

‘A Lot of Life Left’

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on August 7, 1997

At first glance, Temple Beth Zion, on a busy stretch of Olympic Boulevard in the mid-city, looks stark and abandoned.

The front door is locked, the religious school has been closed for almost four decades, and the daily minyan and Friday-night serviceare gone (many of the some 135 members, most of whom are aged 75 to80, can no longer drive at night).