How can we dance again? It’s not just a question for Simchat Torah; it’s a question for every moment we face after loss, after tragedy, after the world splits wide open.

Cantor Jennifer Bern-Vogel was used to hearing her mother tell the story. On the evening of Nov. 9, 1938, her mother, then ...

Walk me like a palindrome forward to our common home, looking backwards at the past, thinking our love couldn’t last, though it’s lasted long enough for ...

A Torah hidden for decades is now being restored by Holocaust survivors. Local survivors gathered at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County on Thursday to help bring the scroll ...

During this synagogue-based holiday, we read aloud the very end and the very beginning of the Torah, and we danced around in our sanctuaries with the Torah scrolls ... and to get back to the ...

They then roll back the Torah scroll to the beginning and start over with Genesis 1:1, the story of Creation. The Team Torah challenge, as it’s come to be known, is the brainchild of a committee ...

Customarily, Simchat Torah is one of the most joyous days of the Jewish calendar, highlighted by exuberant dancing around a ...

People dance with the Torah scrolls; there is sometimes alcohol consumption ... I cannot know (yet), but this question has a precedent. I am going back 51 years ago — to the Simchat Torah ...

“Can we dance with Torah scrolls whose embroideries now bear ... as those memories of lost loved ones and family members come back to them.” In the Hadar guide, Renana Ravitsky Pilzer ...

“Can we dance with Torah scrolls whose embroideries now bear ... as those memories of lost loved ones and family members come back to them.” In the Hadar guide, Renana Ravitsky Pilzer ...

The highlight is the hakafot, during which participants march and dance around a Torah scroll ... I pray will someday bring an unbridled joy back to this holiday of Simchat Torah.” ...