The dream is simple: that every person who wants to read Torah, teach Torah, or hear Torah should be able to do so with ease, ...

Simchat Torah is Hebrew for “Rejoicing of the Torah” (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Simchat Torah, Hebrew for “Rejoicing of the Torah” is a Jewish religious holiday that commemorates the completion of the ...

This week’s parsha, Bamidbar is always read on the Shabbat prior to the Shavuot holiday. This year is no different. Rabbi Isaiah Halevy Horowitz, author of the Shnei Luhot Habrit, suggests that this ...

Reading can cause many different emotions. For some people, beginning a new book produces excitement about where the narrative will take them. Then there’s the pleasure of the plot itself, watching ...

Explore the depth of Torah commentary through the lens of Sarah's life and Abraham's profound acts of love and responsibility ...

Moses seemed conflicted in the last weekly portion (Exodus 5:21–23). He asks why the Lord did “so much evil to this people” and wonders again why he was sent to liberate them. Why were the Israelites ...

Before she had language to understand herself as a transgender person, Joy Ladin did not feel represented or at ease in the physical world she inhabited. While reading the Torah as a child, Ladin ...

Simchat Torah, Hebrew for “Rejoicing of the Torah” is a Jewish religious holiday that commemorates the completion of the yearly cycle of Torah reading. The Torah is a central part of Judaism and to ...