Studying Torah gives them a place to explore these ... We cycle back through the same parshiot each year, remembering the details we’ve learned before and looking for new meanings and new relevance to ...

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

Immediately, he returned to studying Torah. Like Rabbi Akiva, we may feel like we love parts of being Jewish but not the whole. We love the holidays but not the prayers. The Kiddush but not the ...

These include the obligation to study Torah, and to attend daily prayer services. Men and women thus have considerably different experiences of spirituality and daily tasks. Most observers would ...

For many young Jewish girls, the bat mitzvah is a significant milestone, marking a transition from childhood to the ...

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

My first Tikkun Leil Shavuot, the marathon of Torah study observed on the night of ... what does it mean “This is the Torah that Moses put before them.” If they are worthy it becomes an ...

Probably the most moving spiritual moment I shared with my father happened two years before he died ... aliyah of the entire Torah–Moses’s final blessings to the children of Israel–for ...

on October 6th for a siyum, a celebration marking the completion of a unit of Torah study, in memory of the ... for the “mundane” readings and prayer she read by “rote” over the years ...

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 ...

The Torah verses convey profound messages that ... or used for personal benefit during the holiday. Order of blessings: - Before eating a meal in the sukkah, the blessing "LeishevBaSukkah" is ...

The Star of David is a recognised symbol of Judaism and is often found outside synagogues Synagogue close synagogueBuilding for Jewish public prayer, study and assembly. means ‘assembly’.