"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 ...

Jews in New Jersey normally greet Simchat Torah, which begins at sunset on Thursday, with joy. It's traditionally a holiday of dance, song and feasts. Simchat Torah, which means "rejoicing of the ...

(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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jewish congregations in Palm Beach are planning to celebrate the normally festive holiday of Simchat Torah this week, but a trace ...

(RNS) — That must be a trick question, you say. Oct. 7 was, well, on Oct. 7. True enough. But what is the appropriate date for its commemoration? That was the question many of us were hearing, and ...

Two years ago, Jews around the world faced a difficult question: can we still dance for Simchat Torah during a catastrophic attack? And this question hasn’t gone away. Last year, on the first ...

How is it possible to commemorate the darkest event in Israeli history on the most joyful day of the Jewish year? This is not a rhetorical question. The massacre of Oct. 7 happened last year on the ...

[This story, translated from the Yiddish by Miriam Udel, is the fourth in a series of Yiddish holiday tales for children that will run throughout the Jewish year 5785. Udel prefaces each story with an ...