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 ...

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 ...

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

Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape from destruction recorded in the Book of Esther. Haman, an early Hitler in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three people have been arrested following a break-in at a synagogue in north London that left prayer items, including sacred Torah scrolls, strewn across the floor. The incident took place in the ...

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 ...

Long Island firefighter Michael Farca discusses how he saved a Torah from a local synagogue fire on ‘Fox & Friends Weekend.’ Texas defunds border wall Top 5 Outfield Trade Targets For The ...