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

Sukkot reminds us that it is all too easy to take life's bounties for granted, to complain too much about our problems, and ...

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 ...

I’ve been troubled by the apparent illogic of Yaakov’s argument. After all, if Yaakov's claim were valid in the legal sense, then by that re ...

After a moving Simchat Torah, all the political talk of unity we hear cannot come close to the true unifier for the Jewish ...

The Holiday. The rabbis considered it the ideal festival because of its joyous nature. In the liturgy, it is called ...

Jim Long and Rabbi Chaim Richman invite you into their respective sukkot, as they celebrate the joyous festival with Torah ...

The holiday celebrates the completion of the annual cycle of weekly public Torah readings and the beginning of a new cycle. The holiday runs from sundown on Thursday, Oct. 24, to sundown Friday ...

The simple reading of the verses arouses wonder ... Vezot Habracha concludes the Torah with the blessings of Moshe to the tribes of Israel, and subsequently with his transfer of power to Yeshoshua ...

Rabbis recommend muted celebrations, less festive meals and new liturgy as the first anniversary of the Hamas atrocities ...

Here is what must be: those of us who can will dance for those who cannot. Those who can generate joy in the midst of loss ...

While Kamil has incorporated many elements of Oct. 7 remembrance, including a vigil, into her Conservative synagogue’s High Holiday and Sukkot services, on Simchat Torah, she wants her congregation to ...