Rabbi David Samson: "Just as a person can’t pick up a scalpel and become a brain surgeon without years of preparation, a ...

for most texts in the holy scroll ascribed to Moses, a leader for whom all the world would vote if lost paradise miraculously recompose. Unlike the tohu bohu shrunk by God was the death of Moses, aged ...

The moment working together endangers the Jewish future of Torah learners, the question will be brought to the sages; I don't ...

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 ...

"This Simchat Torah, we will dance again." That refrain was echoed coast-to-coast by American Jews on Monday, Oct. 13, as they prepared to celebrate one of their faith's most joyous holidays following ...

Rabba Anat Sharbat, the unofficial “rabbi of Hostages Square,” wept as she recited the Shehechiyanu blessing after lighting the candles to mark the beginning of Simchat Torah holiday on Monday evening ...