On the night after my first Simchat Torah in Israel, rain began to fall. My roommate and I, students, heard that there was an Israeli custom of dancing in the street after the Simchat Torah ...

On the Jewish calendar, the horrific attack of Oct. 7 occurred with the 22nd day of Tishrei, which is Simchat Torah, “the rejoicing of the Torah,” the festival upon which the annual Torah ...

In other words: “Leave me alone. I’ve got mine, and you’ve got yours, and that is all that really matters. Let us retreat ...

Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, The very name of this holiday – “the joy of the Torah,” celebrating the completion of the annual Torah cycle – connotes an emotion we ...

The Torah ends with sadness. Moses, the Torah’s author, dies, and its final sentences are written with tears. Moses liberated the Jewish people from slavery and led them to the edge of the ...

This coming Simchat Torah marks the first one-year anniversary (on the Hebrew calendar) of the worst bloody massacre of Jews since the dark days of the Holocaust. It is so difficult to fathom ...

Jews in New Jersey normally greet Simchat Torah, which begins at sunset on Thursday, with joy. It's traditionally a holiday of dance, song and feasts. Simchat Torah, which means "rejoicing of the ...

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 ...

This is not a rhetorical question. The massacre of Oct. 7 happened last year on the morning of Simchat Torah, the day when Jews are supposed to sing and dance with Torah scrolls in a state of ...

(JTA) — How are we supposed to celebrate Simchat Torah this year with a full heart? The very name of this holiday — “the joy of the Torah,” celebrating the completion of the annual Torah ...

In last weekend’s Magazine, Michael Freund wrote an excellent article explaining why we must dance again on Simchat Torah. He noted, “The scars left on our collective psyche are still raw and ...

Simchat Torah is a day associated with memories and the day we have been dreading since last year, when rumors started to emerge from the butchery that was happening in the south, on one of the ...