Walk me like a palindrome forward to our common home, looking backwards at the past, thinking our love couldn’t last, though it’s lasted long enough for ...

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel ... of the ...

On Motzei Shabbat Bereshit, after two festive days of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, Moscow marked a Simchat Torah ...

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

We restart our annual Torah cycle with the readings of Breishit and Noach, and I always feel the need to ask: Why are we reading this? I feel little connection to these Torah readings. Emotionally ...

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

“We started together reciting the first verse, ‘Breishit bara....,’ ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth,’ and then everyone read aloud, holding the card of Torah ...

The team at Jerusalem’s Pomerantz bookstore notes, “We’re excited to introduce this book in Israel now, at a time when its ...

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Simchat Torah marks the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the start of a new one. The highlight is the hakafot, during which participants march and dance around a Torah ...

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 ...