the prophetic text whose reading follows that of the weekly sidra, the portion of the Torah’s text that is read in synagogues every Shabbat: אָחוֹר לֹא־יָשׁוּב רֵיקָ ...

Man left alone in his nature is pulled downwards. The Torah pushes us to hope for the future, to make progress, and to find ...

Many of us have “lost” our flashlight-the weekly parasha - which helps to light our way. We need to return this precious ...

Dedicated to Captain Rabbi Avraham Goldberg zt”l, a loving husband and father, a gifted educator and Rav, a man of great ...

G erardo Werthein was sworn in as Argentina's Minister of Foreign Affairs in a ceremony notable for being the first time a ...

Rav David read beautifully both the last weekly Torah portion and part of the first Torah portion, as are traditionally read, ...

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

A few years ago, the Conservative congregation of 900 families overlooking Lake Michigan took on a challenge. This past year ...

we moved to the Torah readings that furnish the reason for celebrating Simchat Torah. The holiday marks the completion of the annual cycle of studying, in weekly portions, the entirety of the ...

The holiday celebrates the completion of the annual cycle of weekly public Torah readings and the beginning of a new cycle. The holiday runs from sundown on Thursday, Oct. 24, to sundown Friday ...

Simchat Torah arrives this week. Here's why North Jersey Jews consider it one of their happiest holidays — but also, this year, a difficult one.