Reading can cause many different emotions. For some people, beginning a new book produces excitement about where the narrative will take them. Then there’s the pleasure of the plot itself, watching ...

As we search for joy, we can allow ourselves to revel in feelings of relief. For two years, Simchat Torah has carried the ...

(JTA) — For the last dozen years, an array of synagogues from multiple denominations have gathered together in a central location in Brooklyn to sing and dance with the Torah, the centerpiece of ...

(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. HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (RNS) — Growing up in ...

A year ago, I spent Simchat Torah in Vienna when I travelled there to participate in the Vienna Project, a multi-tiered program created by Karen Frostig, a Boston-based Jewish artist and daughter of a ...

The launch by Hamas of an assault on the Jewish state, occurring nearly 50 years to the day after Yom Kippur War, is a reminder that the battle that began well before 1948 — recall the Hebron riots of ...

Dozens of men sit around a few tables, humming a soft Chasidic niggun (tune), swaying slowly back and forth, noshing on cold cuts, salads and light snacks. Some are sipping on small cups of vodka.

Clergy and congregants sing “Hatikvah,” Israel’s national anthem, while holding Torah scrolls during a muted Simchat Torah service at Anshe Emet Synagogue in Chicago on Oct. 7. (Screenshot via JTA.org ...