On Simchat Torah, we were at a synagogue in Florida, and at the kiddish, the Rabbi was saying how the holiday is to celebrate the Torah—finishing one cycle of reading and learning it and immediately ...

For over forty years I have been teaching the deeper significance of the amazing Redemption process of our times and the writings of Rabbi Kook in the English- Division of the Machon Meir Yeshiva in ...

What would you do if invited to participate in the unrolling of a 100-foot Torah scroll and an Israeli-style dinner at a synagogue? Don't know about you, but I eagerly accepted the invitation from ...

Timeless classics, modern favorites, and totally unique monikers that no one else in your kid’s class will share—you can find it all in the Hebrew Bible. Take a trip back in time to the Old Testament ...

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Many people I encounter here in Victoria have no familiarity at all with basic Jewish vocabulary, so I thought I would use this opportunity as a very basic primer. Rabbi: A rabbi primarily functions ...

PINECREST, Fla. -- -- PINECREST, Fla. -- Dinner was over by the time the party's honored guest showed up at the table. The visitor to Sandy Grossman's home was a Torah. Most Jews see the holy scroll ...