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 ...

Perhaps, as difficult as it feels, we are celebrating and dancing for the future. If we want to celebrate Simchat Torah in ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

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