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 ...

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If we were truly aware of the power embedded in our words, in casual conversation, in a sentence spoken in anger or sarcasm, we would be far more cautious. The figure of our matriarch Rachel occupies ...

Two years ago, on the joyous eve of Simchat Torah, the Hebrew calendar’s exuberant celebration marking the culmination of the annual Torah reading cycle, Hamas shattered the world for Jews everywhere.

The name of the Torah has a complicated history. It has been thought to mean a multitude of things including “instruction”, “law”, and “teaching”. The Torah is often misunderstood to represent the ...

The Torah begins with the beginning. The creation of the world. And for those who read the Torah over again each year, we can come to take that for granted. Once you’ve reread Harry Potter a few times ...

Monday’s procession coincides with the Jewish holiday Simchat Torah — a joyous milestone during which the Torah reading cycle concludes and starts again It’s been just over two years since Hamas ...

Every Shabbos, Jews in synagogues of all denominations hear the cantor, rabbi or a layperson chant that week’s Torah portion from an open scroll. But Yiddish scholar Sheva Zucker says you don’t need ...

There is an old cliche that goes, “It’s not what you say; it’s how you say it.” While that particular phrase only dates back to the 1970s, there is a much more ancient and Jewish source to this ...

When I’m not working for the Forward, one of the ways I spend my time is as a gabbai at a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Los Angeles. It’s the perfect role for a busybody, or a shmoozer, or a grammar ...