The haftara to Parshat Naso is lifted from Sefer Shoftim/Judges 13:2-25. Haftarot, as we all know, are excerpts from the ...

The service also included what was called a “Parasha reading,” featuring verses from the biblical books of Numbers and Hosea (from the Torah portion and haftara, or Prophets portion ...

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the death toll is expected to grow. Yesterday we read the haftara charging Joshua and all of Israel חזק ואמץ be strong and resolute. Strength and ...

So what used to happen was, he would go to a bar mitzvah. Some poor fucking schmuck would read their haftara and then everybody would eat a bagel with cream cheese and go home. There was no party ...

In an odd bit of synchronicity, our haftara begins with the introduction of Avishag the Shunamite, while the leading character in the previous haftara was the Shunamite woman. The Midrash teaches ...

This Shabbat, with its double parashah Nitzavim-Vayeilech, closes the year 5780: next Shabbat, which will coincide with Rosh Hashanah, will already be the first Shabbat of the new year 5781.

Mr Haftar's offensive to take Tripoli came in the midst of planned talks over the delayed election Khalifa Haftar has been part of the Libyan political scene for more than four decades, shifting ...

Using the special Yemenite chant he learned decades ago as a young boy, Moshe Hizmi recites the Haftara portion that follows the weekly Torah reading, as a hush falls over the congregation.

The Haftara from Yirmiyahu 1:1-19, 2:1-3 describes the consequences that would be visited upon Israel in response to its sinfulness. The famous verse (Yirmiyahu 1:14) “…Out of the north the ...

Dr Kerryn Olsen at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Patrick You and Vigee Li at Fo Guang Shan, Dr Sairam Iyer at the Swaminarayan Mandir Temple and Firoz Patel at the Ponsonby Mosque. Photo / Natalie Slade ...