The concept of dancing on Simchat Torah looms over many of us as an unthinkable ... In many ways, we are living in unprecedented times, yet within our history, we have many examples of celebrating ...

celebrating and dancing again on Simchat Torah will be easier, and for others much harder, and for some, impossible.

Congregation Beit Simchat Torah “reminded me of my Jewish childhood ... Brooklyn “before the Lubavitch rebbe arrived,” he recounted in an oral history for the LGBTQ Religious Archives ...

The Two-State Solution and elevating Arafat from a terrorist to a politician was an invention of the naïve Israeli left, not a Palestinian idea. But Arafat stayed a terrorist, wanted all of it, and ...

High Holy Days: A term often used to describe the holidays falling during the Hebrew month of Tishrei (often overlapping with September and October), the High Holy Days/Holidays include Rosh Hashanah, ...

We need to seek a middle path between the usual joy of Simchat Torah and the mourning necessitated by the disaster of Simchat Torah 5784 on October 7. Information ...