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

TheTorah commandments to go forth to war when Jewish life in Israel is threatened and the injunction not to stand idly by ...

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

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

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

The coalition has lost the votes it needs to pass the controversial so-called Daycare Law being pushed by the ultra-Orthodox ...

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

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef instructs all non-Torah learning activity canceled due to war, calls on yeshiva students to pray for ...

As Jews around the world observe Simchat Torah and celebrate another completion of the Torah reading cycle, the 85-year ...

It turns out that a holiday we consider as only suffused with joy for centuries had an undercurrent of mourning running ...