The Torah holder sits in a chair next to me throughout the Torah lesson, or until he or she asks to pass it on to a new Torah holder for the rest of the class. I continually emphasize the kind of ...
In the Big Apple, two groups are doing big Shavuot all-nighters, with a range of Torah classes and plenty more. The JCC Manhattan, which has had an all-night program each Shavuot since 2004 ...
Shemini Atzeret, or “The Eighth Day of Assembly,” is the eighth day of Sukkot and marks the beginning of Simchat Torah. Brandeis does not hold classes on Shmini Atzeret/ the first day of Simchat Torah ...
CHARLIE: When you're Jewish like me you try to live life by God's Commandments in the Torah the first Five Books of Moses. Every synagogue has its own Torah scrolls. Each one is hand-written in ...