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Tag: Torah Scrolls

0 Education Jewish Law

Torah Challenges

Unorthodox · 19 Sep

The Simchat Torah Challenge aims to engage 10,000 Jews globally in weekly Torah study, offering a sense of unity and tradition through digital and physical materials, like free chumashim.

0 Communities Jewish Law

How do you ‘hospice’ a synagogue?

eJewishPhilanthropy · 6 Sep

The process of closing a synagogue, often compared to 'hospicing,' involves navigating emotional and logistical challenges while honoring the legacy of a once-thriving Jewish institution.

0 Television/Film Culture

Between the Temples review: ‘excruciating in the best way’

Jewish Chronicle · 21 Aug

"Between the Temples" is a film set in upstate New York, portraying a Jewish community that is either nostalgically comforting or frustratingly oblivious to contemporary issues.

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Sicily’s Jews have their first rabbi in 500 years. Italy’s Jewish establishment won’t accept them.

David I. Klein in Forward · 14 Jun 2023

Rabbi Gilberto Ventura leads a unique Jewish community in Catania, Sicily, made up mainly of Bnei Anusim (descendants of Jews who were forced to hide their religious practice during the Spanish Inquisition).

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That Which Is Beyond Your Gates

David Zvi Kalman in Lehrhaus · 31 May 2022

In this fictional story, a synagogue mysteriously begins to expand, with the building seemingly consuming the parking lot and growing in size.

0 Torah Holidays

The Inverted Halakhah of Simhat Torah

Chaim Saiman in Lehrhaus · 18 Oct 2019

Simhat Torah, a day immersed in minhag (customs), has evolved over time from a Talmudic yom tov sheni of Shemini Atzeret into a festivity celebrating the completion of the Torah reading cycle.

0 Communities Holidays

Hero California Rabbi Evacuates For Wildfire — But Only After Shabbat In Secret Prayer Bunker

Forward · 13 Nov 2018

Rabbi Barry Diamond of Temple Adat Elohim in Thousand Oaks heroically conducted a Shabbat service from a secret prayer bunker, even as wildfires threatened the area.

0 Holidays Culture

How To Get Right With God This Yom Kippur

Forward · 7 Oct 2016

As Yom Kippur approaches, traditions for getting right with God include tossing bread into water to symbolize sin washing away, abstaining from physical pleasures, swinging a chicken in a ritual of atonement, wearing white to signify purity, making amends with others, and kneeling before the Ark during prayers.

0 Holidays Prayer

S. Y. Agnon in Tablet · 3 Oct 2014

The text describes the author's experiences and reflections on Yom Kippur in various settings, from a synagogue in Jerusalem to a small gathering in a suburban neighborhood.

0 Communities History

After Hurricane Katrina, A Solemn Yom Kippur

Menachem Butler in Tablet · 13 Sep 2013

After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the Beth Israel congregation faced immense challenges with their synagogue heavily damaged.

0 History Jewish Law

That in Aleppo Once

Marc B. Shapiro in Jewish Review of Books · 27 Feb 2013

In "That in Aleppo Once," the authors Hayim Tawil and Bernard Schneider discuss the historical journey of the Aleppo Codex, a significant annotated copy of the Hebrew Bible created by Aharon ben Asher and Shlomo ben Buyaa in the 10th century.

0 Holidays Communities

A Convert’s First Simchat Torah

Siân Gibby in Tablet · 5 Oct 2012

A person recounts their first experience of Simchat Torah before officially converting to Judaism.