In his book Lessons in Leadership, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks – a briliant rabbinic leader – comments that “Abraham is without a ...

Glendalough became one of my favourite sites in Ireland: it was close to my first dwelling place – Matthew’s house; it ...

Bible App Implements Handy ‘Skip Genealogies’ Button,” declared a satirical headlinethat is sure to catch the attention of ...

Spiritual excellence is irrelevant to the angel of death. And that intensifies the Torah’s tragic ending; a book that in Genesis began with the promise of eternal life for all ends with the ...

Meet Yael Kanarek. The artist behind Toratah, a gender-swapped rewrite of the Hebrew Bible, is coming to the Bay Area.

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

[S&W, p. OT 432] By the time of Christ, all Jews accepted the five Books of Moses - the Torah - as Scripture; however, Books, like Esther and Ecclesiastes, were debated. From the Dead Sea Scrolls ...

the fifth and last book in the Torah, and begin the annual cycle again with the Book of Genesis. During the seven hakafot, or rounds of celebration, select congregants carry the Torah scrolls and ...

So, earlier this year when his synagogue, North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, began offering classes on chanting Torah, the first five books of the Bible, he signed up. On Aug. 10, the 66-year-old ...

they made it a holiday and recied the blessing of the 'good and the benevolent'. Our Torah books that have worn out have not remained in disgrace in our eyes." The reason the books have worn out ...

So how might we give expression to these complicated emotions this Simchat Torah? One of the leading Jewish scholars of the 20th century, Avraham Yaari, wrote a book-length study of Simchat Torah.

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (RNS) — Growing up in Argentina in an assimilated Jewish family, Jorge Singman never had a bar mitzvah, a rite of passage when Jewish teens read from the Torah scroll in ...