Kehilat Nava Tehilla, a music-centered Jewish Renewal community in Jerusalem, will hold an expanded Yizkor and avoid the levity and “funny shticks” typical of a Simchat Torah celebration ...

Eighteen months after the death of his daughter, a soldier killed in Hamas's October 7 attacks, Eyal Eshel criticizes how ...

On Simchat Torah, he would dance with the Torah out on ... a storyteller in a city built on stories. He went to work for Jewish Journal, producing digital content and writing a weekly column ...

Jewish holidays take place in the unique context of the Jewish ... mere purpose of God and Israel delighting in each other (Note: in the Reform movement, Simchat Torah and Shemini Atseret are ...

Simchat Torah may never be the same ... make this new year and future years better – and rooted in the values of Jewish tradition. Hazak, hazak, venitchazek – Let us be strong and we will ...

High Holy Days: A term often used to describe the holidays falling during the Hebrew month of Tishrei (often overlapping with September and October), the High Holy Days/Holidays include Rosh Hashanah, ...

It was at another music festival, during another Jewish holiday, that the Hamas-Israel war began. Thousands of Palestinian terrorists invaded Israel on Simchat Torah and attacked, among numerous ...