Simchat Torah is Hebrew for “Rejoicing of the Torah” (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Simchat Torah, Hebrew for “Rejoicing of the Torah” is a Jewish religious holiday that commemorates the completion of the ...

A Memoir of Reading Together,” the author describes a familiar predicament: a mother with work to do is trapped in her ...

Shemini Atzeret, both a biblically mandated festival and the Yartzeit of hundreds of Jews murdered two years ago, is now and ...

How sad that the nature of created mankind, with the ability to either trust and obey God or to disobey Him, inevitably led ...

Simchat Torah itself became a scar. The holiday, whose name means “Rejoicing with the Torah,” marks the Torah reading’s annual completion and restart — a cycle of renewal, celebrated with exuberant ...

American Jews prepared to celebrate one of their faith's most joyous holidays after the release of 20 Israeli hostages.

When it comes to Jewish holidays, Simchat Torah is one of the happiest. A celebration of the completion of the annual cycle reading of the Torah and the start of a new one, Simchat Torah is ...

Simchat Torah. It’s the Jewish holiday that comes after all the important Jewish holidays — Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot — this time of year. At the end of one Torah-reading cycle and the ...

We are living through a period of plagues, floods, wildfires and other biblical events. In the Torah, such catastrophes often follow poor human behavior — times when we ignore the word of God. You can ...

At a unique crossroads between religion and cuisine, the holiday of Shavuot, which begins this year at sunset on Sunday, June 1, and concludes at nightfall on Tuesday, June 3, celebrates the Giving of ...

Simchat Torah, Hebrew for “Rejoicing of the Torah” is a Jewish religious holiday that commemorates the completion of the yearly cycle of Torah reading. The Torah is a central part of Judaism and to ...