(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 ...

Much like a muscle, faith weakens faster when it isn’t used – a concept that extends to the physical scripture itself, members of Chisuk Emuna were told Sunday. The Jewish congregation, located in ...

Congregation Beth Am Israel in Penn Valley marked the start of its Torah, Ruach, Limmud Campaign with a Torah writing celebration weekend from April 3 to 6. The events included Torah writing sessions ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – The Chisuk Emuna synagogue in Harrisburg is receiving a new Torah, a rare occurrence that happens only once every few decades. Most of the local synagogue’s Torah scrolls are ...

Firefighter Michael Farca braved heavy smoke and flames to rescue a Torah scroll from the burning Chabad of Greenvale synagogue, located in the basement of a multi-tenant building on Northern Blvd., ...

Explore the history of the Torah that survived the Holocaust and its significance to Congregation B’nai Jacob.

When more than a dozen Jewish groups convened last year in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza for an annual celebration of Simchat Torah, tensions that would define the coming year were already emerging. The ...

of Jews who still the universe amaze. This poem was inspired on 10/27/24, a day after we celebrated the festival of Simhat Torah 5785, when we follow our annual conclusion of reading all the parshiot, ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each parent’s and child’s personality, needs, and circumstance vary so widely.

For the Unified Jewish Congregation of Baton Rouge, the last year has been monumental. The congregation was established in January 2022 with the unification of two long-time Baton Rouge congregations ...

Members of Temple Beth El, the historic Rutherford synagogue destroyed in an Aug. 8 fire, gathered at the New Mount Zion cemetery in Lyndhurst on Aug. 28 for a special ceremony to bury Torah scrolls ...

An Orthodox Jewish congregation’s big plan to expand its worship center in a residential neighborhood near Bay Hill did not win favor Tuesday from Orange County commissioners. Orlando Torah Center’s ...