of Jews who still the universe amaze. This poem was inspired on 10/27/24, a day after we celebrated the festival of Simhat Torah 5785, when we follow our annual conclusion of reading all the parshiot, ...

(RNS) — A few years ago, the Conservative congregation of 900 families overlooking Lake Michigan took on a challenge. This past year 210 laypeople stepped up. HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (RNS) — Growing up in ...

A new translation and commentary. After the Shoah—and after modern secularism’s fall from privilege—it is time for Jews to return to reading the Torah as God’s guiding word to them. It is time for ...

Jews all over the world will gather this week observing the start of the new year. For some members of North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, the services will be a showcase on how well they can read from ...

Anyone who follows AI ethics and safety debates can recognize the pattern: worries about bias, about “hallucinations,” about ...

A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: When you borrow a Sefer Torah and it gets damaged, are you liable like any other borrower, or does the mitzvah of lending Torah change ...

God’s ways are beyond our human logic. He separates to Himself, as Jacob divided the flocks of Laban, those who are called ...

In an era when AI is opening new questions about the ownership of texts, the Torah stands apart, writes the chief learning officer at Sefaria. Shavuot is the festival when Jews eat cheesecake and ...

(JTA) — For many Jews across the United States and globe, memories of last year’s Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah will forever revolve around grim phone alerts and hushed conversations in synagogue, ...

When it comes to Jewish holidays, Simchat Torah is one of the happiest. A celebration of the completion of the annual cycle reading of the Torah and the start of a new one, Simchat Torah is ...

CALIFORNIA TEMPLE’S CONGREGATION ARE. MOVING. HAZRAT AT THE TORAH IS LITERALLY A HISTORY. IT’S A REFLECTION OF OUR EARLIEST RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AND AND THE HUMAN ATTEMPT THAT WE HAVE TO DEEPEN OUR ...