On the night after my first Simchat Torah in Israel, rain began to fall. My roommate and I, students, heard that there was an Israeli custom of dancing in the street after the Simchat Torah ...

This initiative evolved into Toratah, a regendered version of the Hebrew Bible that I’ve been developing with a growing community in the U.S. and Israel. Toratah means “Her Torah” — and through it, I ...

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 ...

No one needs reminding that the festive Simchat Torah holiday, which obligates us to be joyous, also marks the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre. On Simchat Torah 5784, one year ago ...

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. (JTA) — How are we supposed to celebrate Simchat Torah this year with a full ...

Simchat Torah is a day associated with memories and the day we have been dreading since last year, when rumors started to emerge from the butchery that was happening in the south, on one of the ...

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 ...

You will receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page ...

We never left a feature untouched in our reviews of the best PDF editor. From OCR and eSignatures to cloud storage services, we’ve tested them all – so we know what makes the best choice for ...

We list the best PDF merger tools, to make it simple and easy to combine documents together into one file. We put the top tools to the test to see which makes for the best workflow. The easiest ...

[S&W, p. OT 432] By the time of Christ, all Jews accepted the five Books of Moses - the Torah - as Scripture; however, Books, like Esther and Ecclesiastes, were debated. From the Dead Sea Scrolls ...