Congregation Beit Simchat Torah is known for being the world’s largest LGBTQ+ synagogue, and the first such synagogue on the East Coast. CBST, as it is known colloquially, was created in the way ...

The NYC Dyke March, an annual protest march rooted in lesbian visibility and geared towards all self-identified dykes, has ...

Today’s Torah reading, the sixth day of the week, corresponds to the sixth of seventh aliyot in Parshat Behaalotcha (Numbers 8:1 to 12:16), the section of Torah which we read in synagogue this ...

Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape ...

Simchat Torah always seemed so simple. Not this year. We asked how you are planning to celebrate Simchat Torah this year, balancing the celebration of our tradition, while also holding space for ...

The congregation wanted a 9,300-square-foot addition to its current house of worship, but county commissioners agreed with ...

Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, claiming about 1,200 lives, took place on Simchat Torah, a date when Jews celebrate the completion of their year-long cycle of Torah readings.

Firefighter Michael Farca braved heavy smoke and flames to rescue a Torah scroll from the burning Chabad of Greenvale synagogue, located in the basement of a multi-tenant building on Northern Blvd ...

A Tucson congregation’s 250-year-old Torah scroll was visited by a Jewish scribe this week for restoration. The congregation received Sefer Torah #531 from the Memorial Scrolls Trust of London ...

Just as we say when we touch the mezuzah and as we saw on the threshold of the Great Synagogue in Rome, “Blessed are you in ...