A Torah hidden for decades is now being restored by Holocaust survivors. Local survivors gathered at the Holocaust Memorial ...

Amid tragedy, communities creatively honor Simchat Torah, blending celebration with remembrance to uphold tradition while ...

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

Jewish National Fund-USA pledges funds to renovate and upgrade “the heart and soul” of Be’er Sheva’s 13,000-strong community, ...

The relic, one of only two items that survived, was kept by a young girl who escaped the Nazis on the Kindertransport; now it ...

On the evening of Nov. 9, 1938, her mother, then Marianne Katzenstein, who was 16 at the time, was in her family’s synagogue ...

On the evening of Nov. 9, 1938, her mother, then Marianne Katzenstein, who was 16 at the time, was in her family’s synagogue ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...