On the Shabbat of June 10 at Temple Ramat Zion, Rebecca Diamond attained a goal achieved by few laypersons, and even fewer women: With her husband, David, and sons Jacob and Rafii looking on from the ...

The dream is simple: that every person who wants to read Torah, teach Torah, or hear Torah should be able to do so with ease, ...

When Gavriel Kedem became a bar mitzvah, he was focused on the usual things: chanting the parsha, giving his dvar, the people watching. He wasn’t thinking about it as a historic moment. But it was — ...

For Judaism, a religion in its 5783rd year, the more things change, the more they stay the same. In a congregation in Abuja, Nigeria, the country’s capital and eighth most populous city, the Jewish ...

(JTA) Simmy Cohen has hardly read from the Torah since his bar mitzvah. When he’s not working at his marketing job from his home in Queens, New York, Cohen spends far more time these days reading ...

(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 ...

Simmy Cohen hoped his original video would resonate with other Orthodox Jews — but it quickly found a much broader audience. (JTA) — Simmy Cohen has hardly read from the Torah since his bar mitzvah.

At its core, all three platforms share a single purpose: to bring Torah learning and reading into the digital age without ...