On Thursday (Oct. 24), as Jews mark the holiday of Simchat Torah (the joy of the Torah), the synagogue will also acknowledge its unique feat. At a time when synagogue attendance is waning across ...

Simchat Torah, which comes at the conclusion of Sukkot, is a time when the entire community celebrates the completion of reading the Torah. It should be an opportunity for men and women to deepen ...

Clergy and congregants sing "Hatikvah," Israel's national anthem, while holding Torah scrolls during a muted Simchat Torah service at Anshe Emet Synagogue in Chicago, Oct. 7, 2023.

(RNS) — How to honor this tradition while memorializing those lost since last Simchat Torah, and centering the 101 hostages still being held by Hamas, has preoccupied rabbis and lay leaders.

On this coming Simchat Torah, we will once again dance with our Torahs. But, as we well know, the singing and dancing will never ever be the same as prior to October 7th 2023. It will be tinged with a ...

Morristown: Temple B'nai Or, a Reform synagogue, will celebrate Simchat Torah on Wednesday night "while envisioning freedom for the hostages in Gaza and peace in Israel," its flyer says.

Temple Etz Rimon of Carlsbad celebrated the holiday of Simchat Torah and also welcomed new members to the congregation. Simchat Torah, which means “rejoicing in the Torah,” marks the ...

Congregation Beit Simchat Torah began in 1973 when a small group of gay men gathered for Shabbat services in a children’s classroom in the annex of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Chelsea.

On Simchat Torah, one Illinois synagogue celebrates a bounty of Torah readers. Story by RNS • 4d. H IGHLAND PARK, Ill. (RNS) — Growing up in Argentina in an assimilated Jewish family, ...

While Kamil has incorporated many elements of Oct. 7 remembrance, including a vigil, into her Conservative synagogue’s High Holiday and Sukkot services, on Simchat Torah, she wants her ...