Simchat Torah itself became a scar. The holiday, whose name means “Rejoicing with the Torah,” marks the Torah reading’s annual completion and restart — a cycle of renewal, celebrated with exuberant ...

Shemini Atzeret, both a biblically mandated festival and the Yartzeit of hundreds of Jews murdered two years ago, is now and ...

For there is no peace. For Hamas has already vowed to prepare the next attack. For the people on both sides of the border are wounded and in pain and mostly indifferent to the suffering of the people ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each parent’s and child’s personality, needs, and circumstance vary so widely.

The Manchester synagogue that was targeted in a car and knife attack has reopened for the first time since it happened. Two ...

About 150 were in attendance, including members of Congregation Kol Shofar in Tiburon, which celebrates Simchat Torah with ...

Even atheists can enjoy these secular Yiddish poems and their English translations, related to the Torah reading.

Renewal is integral to our human experience. We are dynamic creatures, just like the world around us,” writes.

Simchat Torah, Hebrew for “Rejoicing of the Torah” is a Jewish religious holiday that commemorates the completion of the yearly cycle of Torah reading. The Torah is a central part of Judaism and to ...

The congregation believes strongly that the temple is not only the synagogue for the Jewish community, but it also belongs to ...

A wave of relief and joy is washing over a Jupiter family and Jewish communities across the globe, as the last of the living ...

Sh’mini Atzeret is marked by "Geshem", the prayer for rain. Though everyone knows the ditty, "Rain, rain go away, come again another day", life would be lacking without rain. Many poets produced texts ...