American Jews prepared to celebrate one of their faith's most joyous holidays after the release of 20 Israeli hostages.

Simchat Torah itself became a scar. The holiday, whose name means “Rejoicing with the Torah,” marks the Torah reading’s annual completion and restart — a cycle of renewal, celebrated with exuberant ...

Rabba Anat Sharbat, the unofficial “rabbi of Hostages Square,” wept as she recited the Shehechiyanu blessing after lighting ...

Renewal is integral to our human experience. We are dynamic creatures, just like the world around us,” writes.

Rabbi Moshe New, Shliach and director of the Montreal Torah Center, reflects on Simchas Torah 5738 with the Rebbe. He recalls ...

Every shabbos, Jews in synagogues of all denominations hear the cantor, rabbi or a layperson chant that week’s Torah portion ...

This is a programming note that Tuesday and Wednesday are Simchat Torah and I will be offline the next two days. I will be ...

The Talmud, along with generations of scholars since, have made the remarkable point that the Torah and the Bible are ...