Amid tragedy, communities creatively honor Simchat Torah, blending celebration with remembrance to uphold tradition while ...

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

The duality of mourning and joy coexisting reminds us of the importance of honoring both the pain and the celebration, as we ...

The world in which we live is an avenue to the spiritual; we can access the spiritual, transcendent world through the physical world because the two are intimately and intrinsically connected.

but that much of it was derived later from the Torah’s text by the Mishnaic and Talmudic Sages. (The Rambam rejects the view of the Geonim and others throughout history who believed that every ...

Gaining the wisdom of Torah every week is an unusual way to honor the memory of the worst day in Israeli history. But by ...

The Torah also contains stories – of Adam and ... Solly shows us how his family celebrates and gives us a short history of the origin of the tradition. Life as a young Jewish boy.

As always, there is a source of truth to consult: the Torah. The Torah calls one person an "ish" – a man (as distinct from an adult male) – more than anyone else. This is Moses. The first act ...

Richmond is a town of 1,420 people but the town wasn't always known as Richmond. This is the story of Richmond in Central ...

Amid a difficult year marked by global turmoil and tragedy, Chabad of Bushwick invites the community to gather tomorrow for ...

Simchat Torah, which means "rejoicing of the Torah" in Hebrew, is one of Judaism's happiest holidays. It's often accompanied ...

Questions about how to represent German Jews, past and present, have complicated plans to rebuild the destroyed temple.