As journalist Adam Ciralsky uncovered, the Iranian regime paid the infamous, now-deceased Sinwar $2,000,000 to commit the ...

Simchat Torah arrives this week. Here's why North Jersey Jews consider it one of their happiest holidays — but also, this year, a difficult one.

Simchat Torah arrives this week. Here's why North Jersey Jews consider it one of their happiest holidays — but also, this year, a difficult one.

(RNS) — A few years ago, the Conservative congregation of 900 families overlooking Lake Michigan took on a challenge. This past year 210 laypeople stepped up.

Silent dancing on Simchat Torah? A joyous Jewish holiday is remade for a mournful anniversary. Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel took place on the only Jewish holiday with “joy” in its name.

JTA – How are we supposed to celebrate Simchat Torah this year with a full heart? The very name of this holiday – “the joy of the Torah,” celebrating the completion of the annual Torah ...

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 that ...

(RNS) — How to honor this tradition while memorializing those lost since last Simchat Torah, and centering the 101 hostages still being held by Hamas, has preoccupied rabbis and lay leaders.

How to celebrate Simchat Torah when our hearts are weighed down by grief There is a long history of embracing joy in the midst of suffering, writes the president and CEO of the Hadar Institute ...

Each year, Simchat Torah is welcomed by Jews across the world as an invigorating holiday when we complete, and immediately begin again, the annual public Torah reading cycle. In 2023, the usually ...