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

Two years after Hamas’ attack, mother turned activist Rachel Goldberg-Polin probes the contours of what’s next as Israel hits ...

Hundreds attended a ceremony dedicating a Torah scroll in memory of the late Maj. (res.) Netanel Hershkovitz, a year after he was killed in action in the Gaza Strip while shielding his comrades with ...

Yonatan Buzaglo, a student at the Karnei Shomron Hesder Yeshiva and a soldier in the Nahal Brigade’s 932nd Unit, returned to his yeshiva for Simchat Torah carrying a plush Torah scroll he had ...

A Tucson congregation’s 250-year-old Torah scroll was visited by a Jewish scribe this week for restoration. The congregation received Sefer Torah #531 from the Memorial Scrolls Trust of London, ...

The Torah starts with the miraculous creation from what had been a waste, both infinite and void, and ends with death of the ...

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

"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 ...

The art deco-style JAA ark dates to at least 1933, when the Jewish Home for the Aged — the precursor to JAA — opened its doors in Squirrel Hill, after nearly three decades in the Hill District, said ...

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Gladys R. (Blank) Wise, 81, a resident of Garden Spot Village, passed away on September 28, 2025 at Lancaster General Hospital. She was the daughter of the late Ira L. and Miriam (Kauffman) Blank. She ...

There are many connections that can be made between veganism and the Jewish festivals of Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret (the Eighth Day of Solemn Assembly), and Simchat Torah: 1. Sukkot commemorates the 40 ...