How to celebrate Simchat Torah when our hearts are weighed down by grief
by Rabbi Elie Kaunfer (JTA) — How are we supposed to celebrate Simchat Torah this year with a full heart? The very name of this…
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Silent dancing on Simchat Torah? A joyous Jewish holiday is remade for a mournful anniversary.
by Jacob Gurvis, Deborah Danan (JTA) — For many Jews across the United States and globe, memories of last year’s Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah…
From the sources by Eliezer Segal: The Forgotten Festival
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – Sukkot, the festival of Tabernacles, has two principal rituals: (1) the carrying of four species of plants in a procession…
One year after Oct. 7, a Yom Kippur ritual of communal mourning takes on fresh meaning
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — In 2001, Yom Kippur fell on Sept. 26, two weeks after the terror attacks that brought down the World Trade…
From the Sources by Eliezer Segal: Holiness by the numbers
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – The Torah is not very informative about how it chose the date for the holiday that we celebrate as “Rosh…