Simchat Torah. It’s the Jewish holiday that comes after all the important Jewish holidays — Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot — this time of year. At the end of one Torah-reading cycle and the ...

A ritual of Rosh Hashanah is the blowing of the shofar, a curved ram's horn, which symbolically stirs Jews to repentance.

On the other hand, a number of authorities are of the opinion that one should sit when the Torah is being read. This is because the Torah reading is considered to be a form of Torah study, and 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. HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (RNS) — Growing up in ...

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill., Sept. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Chanting from the Torah scroll, a ritual observed three times a week in synagogues around the world, can be daunting. The Hebrew words cascade ...

Jews all over the world will gather this week observing the start of the new year. For some members of North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, the services will be a showcase on how well they can read from ...

Women of the Wall read from a full-size Torah scroll during the group’s monthly prayer service at the Western Wall. The Torah scroll, one of 100 available for public use on the men’s side of the ...

Before she had language to understand herself as a transgender person, Joy Ladin did not feel represented or at ease in the physical world she inhabited. While reading the Torah as a child, Ladin ...

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 ...

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (RNS) — Growing up in Argentina in an assimilated Jewish family, Jorge Singman never had a bar mitzvah, a rite of passage when Jewish teens read from the Torah scroll in front of ...