In this book, David Michael Grossberg offers a fresh and illuminating perspective on the three-thousand-year history of Jewish monotheism by narrating ... from its earliest emergence. From the Bible's ...

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

On the night after my first Simchat Torah in Israel, rain began to fall. My roommate and I, students, heard that there was an Israeli custom of dancing in the street after the Simchat Torah ...

Pakistan has condemned the permission for public desecration of the Torah and Bible in Sweden. In a statement issued on Saturday, the Foreign Office said offensive acts of religious hatred cannot be ...

Neither is it merely a matter of timing. Rather: It is a question about Judaism itself. Every Jewish holiday occurs according to the Hebrew calendar. Rosh Hashana, for example, is always on the ...

"We will dance because they cannot." The Torah is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. The Torah is Judaism's holiest text, containing its foundational laws and teachings. Simchat Torah is ...

For example, Prophet Abraham is called a Muslim in the Arabic Qur’an; and in the Hebrew Bible he is called a Hebrew [speaker] and a Babylonian immigrant who crossed the Jordan River. The term ...

This coming Simchat Torah marks the first one-year anniversary (on the Hebrew calendar) of the worst bloody massacre of Jews since the dark days of the Holocaust. It is so difficult to fathom ...

Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, The very name of this holiday – “the joy of the Torah,” celebrating the completion of the annual Torah cycle – connotes an emotion we ...

How is it possible to commemorate the darkest event in Israeli history on the most joyful day of the Jewish year? This is not a rhetorical question. The massacre of Oct. 7 happened last year on ...

He emphasized the importance of bringing the Bible — the foundation of Jewish and human culture — closer to European Jewish youth. Gadi Gronich, Chief of Staff for the Conference President ...

For many Jews across the United States and globe, memories of last year’s Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah will forever revolve around grim phone alerts and hushed conversations in synagogue ...