Upon entering the sukkah on the first night of Sukkos, one recites two berachos [at the conclusion of Kiddush]: the blessing on the sukkah (“Leishev baSukkah”) and Shehecheyanu. [Shehecheyanu is a ...

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!

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Efrat Mor, the mother of Eitan, who returned from Hamas captivity last month, shared an especially moving moment that ...

Two interesting comments have come from readers about [my November 25 column][1] on the Jewish toast “l’chaim,” which I traced back to a medieval custom, still practiced by Sephardic and Middle ...

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The Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio acquired what Sotheby’s calls the earliest known kiddush cup, after the auction house sold ...