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

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

Meet Yael Kanarek. The artist behind Toratah, a gender-swapped rewrite of the Hebrew Bible, is coming to the Bay Area.

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 ...

More than 55 graduate students called on the University to divest from Israel’s war in Gaza and end censorship on campus ...

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

The national religious public once questioned who was closer—the secular kibbutznik from Mishmar HaEmek or the haredi from ...

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 ...

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

EVOLUTION In some religious fundamentalist circles, the word evolution is a term of abuse. To me, it is a word that, apart ...

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 ...