This is a line from the Ashrei prayer. Ashrei is a prayer typically recited three times a day by observant Jews.

During Yom Kippur we recite prayers where we hit our chest as we recite each transgression.

Have you ever wanted to wish your Jewish friends a happy holiday, but maybe you weren’t sure if the upcoming Jewish holiday even was a happy one? You are not alone.

On Jewish graves, you’ll find stones left on grave markers. We don’t typically use flowers at graveyards. Some argue it’s not right to mark one death by sacrificing the life of flowers.

For some of us, the Internet reveals those we believed were strangers are actually family.

L’dor v’dor—“from generation to generation” is a central idea in Judaism and those confirmation portraits are shining, smiling, examples of that (occasionally with very dated hairstyles).