Simchat Torah is Hebrew for “Rejoicing of the Torah” (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Simchat Torah, Hebrew for “Rejoicing of the Torah” is a Jewish religious holiday that commemorates the completion of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lala Levi lights Simchat Torah candles alongside her ‘chavrutah’ (study partner) at Kesher Yehudi’s Jerusalem retreat for Nova ...

Consequently, Simchat Torah, the most joyful day on the Jewish calendar, is now intrinsically connected to one of the darkest days in modern Jewish history. This month marks the first Simchat Torah ...

I have spent much of my life advocating for gender equality and women’s rights within Orthodox Judaism. So it might come as a surprise that I have come to have reservations about women’s-only Simchat ...

"This Simchat Torah, we will dance again." That refrain was echoed coast-to-coast by American Jews on Monday, Oct. 13, as they prepared to celebrate one of their faith's most joyous holidays following ...

Simchat Torah. It’s the Jewish holiday that comes after all the important Jewish holidays — Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot — this time of year. At the end of one Torah-reading cycle and the ...

(RNS) — That must be a trick question, you say. Oct. 7 was, well, on Oct. 7. True enough. But what is the appropriate date for its commemoration? That was the question many of us were hearing, and ...

Last week, our communities gathered to mark the one-year yahrzeit observance of the tragedy of Oct. 7. While each communal event was different, there were common themes. Foremost, of course, was the ...

(JTA) — 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, ...

Two years ago, Jews around the world faced a difficult question: can we still dance for Simchat Torah during a catastrophic attack? And this question hasn’t gone away. Last year, on the first ...

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 ...