JERUSALEM (RNS) — Jews around the world are attempting a difficult spiritual straddle this week: how to celebrate the joyous holiday of Simchat Torah on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas ...

The concept of dancing on Simchat Torah looms over many of us as an unthinkable, even dreaded, act. This is the same holiday that was shattered last year in the early hours of October 7 by the ...

Eighteen months after the death of his daughter, a soldier killed in Hamas's October 7 attacks, Eyal Eshel criticizes how ...

He replies, “Sunday? But that’s Simchas Torah.” Though Kilmer was not Jewish himself, his on-point pronunciation of the relatively obscure fall Jewish holiday — which celebrates the end ...

Thousands of Palestinian terrorists invaded Israel on Simchat Torah and attacked, among numerous civilian targets, the Nova Music Festival. Imagine going to Coachella for the music, only to be ...

High Holy Days: A term often used to describe the holidays falling during the Hebrew month of Tishrei (often overlapping with September and October), the High Holy Days/Holidays include Rosh Hashanah, ...

It is a holiday of celebration for the mere purpose of God and Israel delighting in each other (Note: in the Reform movement, Simchat Torah and Shemini Atseret are celebrated on one day). Simchat ...