This coming Simchat Torah marks the first one-year anniversary (on the Hebrew calendar) of the worst bloody massacre of Jews since the dark days of the Holocaust. It is so difficult to fathom ...

It acknowledges our suffering, yet transcends it, drawing on our faith that the ... and turn to the end of the celebratory Hakafot of Simchat Torah, you will encounter the verse: הַרְנִינ ...

Simchat Torah is a day associated with memories and the day we have been dreading since last year, when rumors started to emerge from the butchery that was happening in the south, on one of the ...

On the night after my first Simchat Torah in Israel, rain began to fall. My roommate and I, students, heard that there was an Israeli custom of dancing in the street after the Simchat Torah ...

Simchat Torah, the day of rejoicing for the sacred law given to us at Sinai, is quickly approaching. It is traditionally marked with vibrant song and exuberant dance, as Jews of all ages exult in ...

Fifty-one years ago, they chose to attack us on Yom Kippur, and one year ago, they chose to attack us on Simchat Torah. They coordinated their attacks on these dates, precisely because they ...

It was bold, strategic and exacting. This Simchat Torah was a whirlwind of emotions, thoughts, feelings and memories. Yes. we danced and we cried, as only the Jewish people can endure. But we also ...

Jews in New Jersey normally greet Simchat Torah, which begins at sunset on Thursday, with joy. It's traditionally a holiday of dance, song and feasts. Simchat Torah, which means "rejoicing of the ...

This is not a rhetorical question. The massacre of Oct. 7 happened last year on the morning of Simchat Torah, the day when Jews are supposed to sing and dance with Torah scrolls in a state of ...

Singman was one of 210 congregants who chanted Torah during services in the Jewish year that just concluded, many for the first time. On Thursday (Oct. 24), as Jews mark the holiday of Simchat ...