Reading can cause many different emotions. For some people, beginning a new book produces excitement about where the narrative will take them. Then there’s the pleasure of the plot itself, watching ...

Simchat Torah. It’s the Jewish holiday that comes after all the important Jewish holidays — Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot — this time of year. At the end of one Torah-reading cycle and the ...

A Memoir of Reading Together,” the author describes a familiar predicament: a mother with work to do is trapped in her ...

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 ...

American Jews prepared to celebrate one of their faith's most joyous holidays after the release of 20 Israeli hostages.

Even atheists can enjoy these secular Yiddish poems and their English translations, related to the Torah reading.

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 ...

(JTA) — When Alyza Lewin became a bat mitzvah in 1977, the fact that she had a ritual ceremony at all was still relatively revolutionary in Orthodox circles. But she took the rite of passage a step ...

On Holmby, Wolpe dedicated the program’s sixth hakafah — traditionally, seven hakafot are performed on Simchat Torah — to all ...