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 ...

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 ...

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"This Simchat Torah, we will dance again." That refrain was echoed coast-to-coast by American Jews on Monday, Oct. 13, as they prepared to celebrate one of their faith's most joyous holidays following ...

We are living through a period of plagues, floods, wildfires and other biblical events. In the Torah, such catastrophes often follow poor human behavior — times when we ignore the word of God. You can ...

At this critical juncture, Abraham is presented with a choice: between continuing blind obedience to the original divine ...

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 ...

For the significance and times of the fast day and laws of the Three Weeks that begin on the 17th of Tammuz, click here and here On the regular fast days (17th of Tammuz, 9th of Av morning, Tzom ...

The custom of reading the Haftarah, originated in Israel. The Haftarah is taken from the section of Navi and read on the actual Shabbis that its Prophesy was revealed (historically). The Haftarah was ...

The Union for Reconstructing Judaism is banning the reading of the Torah in sympathy with the #WeToo Movement. New York—The Union for Reconstructing Judaism announced today that it is banning the ...