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

This Simchat Torah, the focus must be on study and discussion of the questions the Torah raises today.

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

A year ago Simchat Torah became a day of mourning. This year, everyone is struggling with how to rationalize celebrating a ...

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

It turns out that a holiday we consider as only suffused with joy for centuries had an undercurrent of mourning running ...

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

Simchat Torah, the 23rd of Tishrei, which was on October 7 last year, is an ideal day to consider this question. It’s a day ...

Palm Beach's Jewish congregations will celebrate Simchat Torah this week while also remembering those who lost their lives ...

The very name of this holiday — “the joy of the Torah,” celebrating the completion of the annual Torah cycle — connotes an ...