davening

When Orthodox Jews pray they do what's called davening.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com James Altucher 2011

Students also must make time for morning prayers, known as davening, and rabbinical training.

NYT > Home Page By HUNTER ATKINS 2012

(For my Jewish brethren, merely call on your "davening" or praying stance, the back-and-forth sway as you commune with the Almighty.)

USATODAY.com - You've got to see 130-mph serve to return it 2003

I was mesmerized, and deeply touched, to see Jews there at that hour of the morning, "davening" in dozens of dialects, in front of that centuries-old symbol of Judaism.

Closer to the Sun 1995

But once in that office, Mr. Berger says, he found Rothstein "davening," the Hebrew term for praying.

FLA Politics - Front Page 2009

Later, it struck me that the Orthodox davening that I'm so used to, while often passionate and powerful, has a certain macho and businesslike quality that can use a little softening up -- a little feminine energy, if you will.

David Suissa: A Woman's Spiritual Edge David Suissa 2011

Give me a Sephardic baritone with Ladino melodies and I'm in davening heaven.

David Suissa: A Woman's Spiritual Edge David Suissa 2011

Give me a Sephardic baritone with Ladino melodies and I'm in davening heaven.

David Suissa: A Woman's Spiritual Edge David Suissa 2011

I was raw and on edge after davening all weekend — all the more so because I knew that I would receive biopsy results on a breast lump that my doctors had considered highly suspicious.

Best of 2009: Night out 2009

Later, it struck me that the Orthodox davening that I'm so used to, while often passionate and powerful, has a certain macho and businesslike quality that can use a little softening up -- a little feminine energy, if you will.

David Suissa: A Woman's Spiritual Edge David Suissa 2011