To think that God descended to Sinai to give us a history lesson or dictate laws is to minimize Torah and to miss the real meaning of it. Last week, Jews around the world stayed up all night learning ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...

Shavuot is the festival when Jews eat cheesecake and celebrate “matan Torah,” literally, “the giving of the Torah” at Mount Sinai. It conjures up images of the tablets being handed to Moses in the ...

Nearly a decade ago, when the Kadima Reconstructionist Community, in Seattle, was looking for a Torah to purchase for its congregation, it decided to have one written by a woman. This seemed like a ...

Freed from slavery, the Israelites spontaneously burst into song in this week’s portion. Singing is the first step on their ...

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Simchat Torah, the joyous holiday marking the completion of the annual Torah reading cycle, has long been a celebration of great significance within the Jewish community. It is a time when ...

Before we get to Lech Lecha, let’s take a look at the timespan of the whole Torah as compared to Parshat Bereishit and Parshat Noach. We will not count the first two pesukim – “Bereishit bara…” and “V ...

On October 7, 2023 the world was shaken by the Simchat Torah Massacre in Israel. I believe it’s no accident that the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust occurred on Simchat Torah, the day on ...

One Torah, said to have been in Auschwitz, has been in the ark at one of New York’s most prominent synagogues since 2008. A second Torah joined it on Monday night, as the synagogue, Central Synagogue ...

For the past nine years, Rabbi Mitchell Nesenoff has been asking synagogues if they would donate one of their Torahs to him for use in his congregation, Temple Adat Yisrael in Lagos, Nigeria. None ...