When I was younger and still figuring out what religion meant to me, I went to synagogue most Shabbats. I loved the rhythm of the service, the sense of belonging, the melodies that felt familiar and ...

It took the Israelites 40 years to walk through the desert to the promised land. It took the Torah study group at Congregation B’nai Tzedek more than half as long just to read about it. On Thursday, ...

Never did I imagine, as a preppy high school student at a Protestant boarding school, that my spiritual journey would lead me to serious Torah study. At my bat mitzvah, despite several years of Hebrew ...

When the Torah scroll is being carried, and also when it is lifted up, everyone who sees it must stand until the scroll is ...

At a unique crossroads between religion and cuisine, the holiday of Shavuot, celebrating the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai some 3,337 years ago, has become a celebration of fine dairy cuisine as ...

Unfortunately, the Jewish world in recent years has been shocked by news of rabbis and religious leaders engaging in financial or sexual impropriety. May one study the sefarim, or listen to the ...

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 ...

Joshua A. Berman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Hebrew Bible at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is the author of Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought. This ...

(RNS) — The six-hour online Torah-fest may be a harbinger of the kinds of creative changes in Jewish communal life resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. (RNS) — On the eve of Shavuot, the Jewish ...

For as long as I can remember, the sound of Torah reading has carried something timeless. Whether it was a weekday minyan or a crowded Shabbat morning, those ancient melodies always connected me to ...