Simchat Torah is Hebrew for “Rejoicing of the Torah” (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Simchat Torah, Hebrew for “Rejoicing of the Torah” is a Jewish religious holiday that commemorates the completion of the ...

Seeach Sod, one of Israel’s leading organizations serving people with intellectual disabilities and autism, has launched a campaign to complete a new Torah scroll that will be dedicated to its ...

If your Torah scroll has cracked or faded letters, who you gonna call? A sofer. This Jewish craftsperson is trained in the art of copying holy texts. Thus, Rabbi Samuel Spector of Congregation Kol Ami ...

(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 ...

As Holocaust survivor Sidney Schenk entered the sanctuary of the newly established Beth Am synagogue, he carried in his arms a fellow Holocaust survivor: the Torah scroll of Roudnice nad Labem, a ...

God may have inspired the Torah, but the creator did not actually write the book. That was a human being. Stephanie Breitsman, 32, probably would have understood this if she had paused to consider it.

I was chanting from the Torah in synagogue when the first siren went off. It was the morning of Simchat Torah, the holiday celebrating our commitment to read the entire Torah over the year, starting ...

Yisrael Yudkin, a 22-year-old Israeli Defense Forces deputy company commander, was killed in Gaza during a rescue mission. To honor Yudkin, the Chabad of Downtown SRQ commissioned a handwritten Torah ...

Simchat Torah, Hebrew for “Rejoicing of the Torah” is a Jewish religious holiday that commemorates the completion of the yearly cycle of Torah reading. The Torah is a central part of Judaism and to ...