You will have to search - but if you search, you will find the consolation, the ever-so-subtle hint that Torah, Jewish ...

After reading this poem, my son Zachary pointed out that the Torah is rounded off by verses that generate a palindromic inclusion for the Torah.

The traditional response to finishing the Torah — "Strong, strong may we be strengthened" — was a balm in a terrifying moment, writes a mother and writer.

Simchat Torah is about more than beginning to read the Torah all over again. It’s about the need to reexamine what we think we know, over and over again.

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 ...

Simchat Torah, Hebrew for “Rejoicing of the Torah” is a Jewish religious holiday that commemorates the completion of the yearly cycle of Torah reading.

Team Torah member readings are not just limited to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (the day of Atonement which begins October 11), but members can read at services throughout the year.

Chanting Torah from the bimah, the synagogue’s stage, is one of the few ceremonial roles available to laypeople. But it’s not easy. Jews have to be able to read Hebrew and then learn the ...

Traditionally, women have been locked out of reading the Jewish holy book in Orthodox Holy Day celebrations. But a small movement of female Torah readers is gaining ground both in the United States ...

Simchat Torah is about more than beginning to read the Torah all over again. It’s about the need to reexamine what we think we know, over and over again. The Jewish holiday known as Simchat Torah, ...

I was chanting from the Torah in synagogue when the first siren went off. It was the morning of Simchat Torah, the holiday celebrating our commitment to read the entire Torah over the year, starting ...