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The TLC Program at B’nai Torah Congregation in Boca Raton is offering opportunities for the local Jewish community to do good ...
You will have to search - but if you search, you will find the consolation, the ever-so-subtle hint that Torah, Jewish ...
Like the haftarot for this special season, which begin with rebuke and end with comfort , our collective Jewish story is one ...
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 ...
The congregation wanted a 9,300-square-foot addition to its current house of worship, but county commissioners agreed with neighbors that the size is a bad fit for the residential area.
It demands to be learned, not just read. But if you do, you’re bound to come away with a more profound understanding of the Oral Torah, which is one of the pillars of our tradition.
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 ...
Notable religious and holy texts including the Quran, the Bible and the Torah are proposed to be shredded by the National Library in a move that’s expected ...
Simchat Torah — which marks the end of the yearly Torah-reading cycle and begins on Thursday evening — is especially vexing: Although most commemorations of the attack took place on Oct. 7 ...
THIS TORAH, ANY TORAH, IS A LIVING THING TO GROWING AND INFORMING THEIR CONGREGATION WITH EVERY READING AND INTERPRETATION. THIS BEING THE SONG OF THE SEA.
Shavuot celebrates the Giving of the Torah and the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai 3,337 years ago.