A year ago Simchat Torah became a day of mourning. This year, everyone is struggling with how to rationalize celebrating a ...

Hundreds of people gathered at the site of the Supernova music festival massacre for prayers, on the occasion of Hoshana ...

If Torah is the “Tree of Life,” we are like seeds planted in the earth to ripen, bear holy fruit, and sustain the world. But ...

Immediately, he returned to studying Torah. Like Rabbi Akiva, we may feel like we love parts of being Jewish but not the whole. We love the holidays but not the prayers. The Kiddush but not the ...

I know this, since as a Jewish person living in exile, my life is intrinsically challenging. Just as my father and his world, ...

One of the participants held a Torah scroll in his arms and danced with it, his face glowing. He said to me: "Last year, look ...

How are we supposed to celebrate Simchat Torah this year with a full heart? The very name of this holiday - "the joy of the ...

on October 6th for a siyum, a celebration marking the completion of a unit of Torah study, in memory of the ... for the “mundane” readings and prayer she read by “rote” over the years ...

For this to be a meaningful simile we must understand both what is Torah and what is water. Originally published on thejewishnews.com, part of the BLOX Digital Content Exchange.

Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef on Monday morning echoed the words of a leading Lithuanian-haredi rabbi, instructing that yeshiva students avoid any non-Torah learning activity, due to ...

As their congregations prepare to celebrate Simchat Torah, local faith leaders reflect on the holiday in the wake of the Oct.

"Carrying our children on our shoulders and Torah scrolls in our arms, we will sing and dance in joyous celebration of the ...