simchat torah

Concluding the High Holiday season with joy.

Traditional hellos for the holiday that celebrates the cycle of Torah reading.

Key terms for the holidays of Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah.

Special ceremonies for ending and beginning the Torah cycle.

Not quite Sukkot, not quite its own holiday.

Bringing Nazis to justice.

Israelis and liberal Jews observe fewer days for some holidays than traditional Diaspora Jews.

What these holidays that follow Sukkot are about.

Same concept as the Ashkenazi one, different approach