After reading this poem, my son Zachary pointed out that the Torah is rounded off by verses that generate a palindromic inclusion for the Torah.

A new translation and commentary. After the Shoah—and after modern secularism’s fall from privilege—it is time for Jews to return to reading the Torah as God’s guiding word to them. It is ...

So every Sunday morning for the past 14 years, a group of Temple Emanuel congregants meets for an hour and a half and reads verses from Torah in English with Rashi, the 11th century commentator ...

Simchat Torah is Hebrew for “the joy of Torah.” It is a celebration, often accompanied by dancing and singing, to mark the completion of the annual reading of this section of the Bible.

It is difficult to find words for this partnership or to describe what reading Torah is like. Tradition gives us the Yiddish leyn and Hebrew koreh, and “read” is their English equivalent. I ...

Reading Torah for the non-native Hebrew speaker is formidable – for the Hebrew and the trope. Among those who are not well versed in Hebrew, reading Torah becomes an exercise in painstaking ...

The traditional response to finishing the Torah — "Strong, strong may we be strengthened" — was a balm in a terrifying moment, writes a mother and writer.

Simchat Torah is about more than beginning to read the Torah all over again. It’s about the need to reexamine what we think we know, over and over again. The Jewish holiday known as Simchat Torah, ...