At the time, the neighborhood was a mix of religious, ultra-religious and non-observant Jews, which charmed us. We followed ...

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

Customarily, Simchat Torah is one of the most joyous days of the Jewish calendar, highlighted by exuberant dancing around a ...

We need to seek a middle path between the usual joy of Simchat Torah and the mourning necessitated by the disaster of Simchat ...

On the Jewish calendar, the horrific attack of Oct. 7 occurred with the 22nd day of Tishrei, which is Simchat Torah, “the ...

Last year, we unknowingly celebrated while families in the south were being massacred. This year, I'm told to embrace the ...

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

It's often accompanied by a parading of the Torah scrolls, the faith's most sacred and central text. But this year, many are wondering how to celebrate a day that, on the Hebrew calendar ...

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

A replica of the Ark of the Covenant, painstakingly constructed, its creators say, to the Torah specifications of the sacred ...