G-D’s response is to send fiery snakes that bite the people and, alas, give them just cause to cry out. When Moses prays on ...

Rabbi Shmuel David, Chief Rabbi of Afula, urges the public to acknowledge the miracles; from recovering after the 10/7 ...

Following US strike on Iran’s Fordow nuclear site, backed by President Donald Trump, Jewish communities across Israel offered ...

Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah – the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the vicious Hamas attack – will be especially meaningful because our commemorations will be intimately Jewish.

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 ...

Should Jews observe the commemoration of the attack on its Hebrew date, which will always be Simchat Torah (i.e., today) or on its Gregorian date, which will always be Oct. 7?

A year ago Simchat Torah became a day of mourning. This year, everyone is struggling with how to rationalize celebrating a holiday on the yahrzeit for nearly 1,200 members of our extended family.

Relatives visit the memorial marker of loved one Yochai Ben Zechariah at the site of the Nova music festival, where hundreds of revelers were killed or kidnapped by Hamas, on the Jewish holiday of ...

Simchat Torah is Hebrew for " rejoicing of the Torah." Each week of the year, Jewish congregations around the world read a particular portion of the Torah in a specified order.