Simchat Torah

Simchat Torah: a day for reading — and connecting — the beginning and end of the Torah.The Torah begins with ...

Being a woman on Simchat Torah is hard for me, but not for the reasons you might think.Maybe I am ...

Three females — a 63-year-old, a 41-year-old, and an 11-year-old — have much in common. In addition to their blond, ...

When you see an adorable baby, a stunning gem, or an intricately illustrated medieval Hagaddah, don’t you feel a yearning to ...

This past Simchat Torah, my mother began planning her synagogue’s first women’s mincha, afternoon service. She was inspired by the ...

I did not have Simchat Torah this year. Bold statement, right? Some of you are probably thinking that I must ...

In my mind, the definitive tale of sisterhood was not the conventionally chosen classic, Little Women , but rather the ...

Rabbi Jane Litman first presented these words of Torah for Simchat Torah in 2006, as part of the Torah Queeries ...

My childhood memories of the festival of Simchat Torah center around a paper flag topped with a candy-apple and candy ...

I don’t know how or when it happened. But somehow, in the not too distant past, the pinnacle of the ...