“To attend a class in today’s busy world takes a lot of personal commitment from a young ... The impact of the CYP Encounter ...

Maybe, like an app that can play a podcast at twice the speed, the Baal Koreh, the person reading the Torah for the congregation, can read those long, repetitive lists of names, ages and x begot y at ...

Rabbi David Leybel, who encourages haredim who are not studying Torah to enlist in the IDF, spoke this week about the Draft Law for yeshiva students, noting that the IDF is not yet prepared to ...

Rabbi Faivish Vogel was one of the main leaders of Chabad in England. He met with royalty, politicians, and famous ...

This is not a rhetorical question. The massacre of Oct. 7 happened last year on the morning of Simchat Torah, the day when Jews are supposed to sing and dance with Torah scrolls in a state of ...

The Torah ends with sadness. Moses, the Torah’s author, dies, and its final sentences are written with tears. Moses liberated the Jewish people from slavery and led them to the edge of the ...

Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, The very name of this holiday – “the joy of the Torah,” celebrating the completion of the annual Torah cycle – connotes an emotion we ...

We need to seek a middle path between the usual joy of Simchat Torah and the mourning necessitated by the disaster of Simchat Torah 5784 on October 7. A Jewish man reads the first letters in the ...

Jews in New Jersey normally greet Simchat Torah, which begins at sunset on Thursday, with joy. It's traditionally a holiday of dance, song and feasts. Simchat Torah, which means "rejoicing of the ...

(JTA) — How are we supposed to celebrate Simchat Torah this year with a full heart? The very name of this holiday — “the joy of the Torah,” celebrating the completion of the annual Torah cycle — ...

For many Jews across the United States and globe, memories of last year’s Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah will forever revolve around grim phone alerts and hushed conversations in synagogue ...

This coming Simchat Torah marks the first one-year anniversary (on the Hebrew calendar) of the worst bloody massacre of Jews since the dark days of the Holocaust. It is so difficult to fathom ...