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On this coming Simchat Torah, we will once again dance with our Torahs. But, as we well know, the singing and dancing will never ever be the same as prior to October 7th 2023. It will be tinged with a ...
Simchat Torah — which marks the end of the yearly Torah-reading cycle and begins on Thursday evening — is especially vexing: Although most commemorations of the attack took place on Oct. 7 ...
Ask Simchat Torah to dance. Not a conventional dancer, it’s a star partner who will drag you off the sidelines and teach you the moves. Simchat Torah, coming at the end of Shemini Atzeret, ...
But here we are, standing in this space—on Simchat Torah of all days—the day when we are meant to dance with the Torah in our arms, meant to sing with a joy that seems so far away now. How do ...
The concept of dancing on Simchat Torah looms over many of us as an unthinkable, even dreaded, act. This is the same holiday that was shattered last year in the early hours of October 7 by the ...
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 ... is Hebrew for “the joy of Torah.” It is a celebration, ...
Jews in New Jersey normally greet Simchat Torah, which begins at sunset on Thursday, with joy. It's traditionally a holiday of dance, song and feasts. Simchat Torah, which means "rejoicing of the ...
Jews in New Jersey normally greet Simchat Torah, which begins at sunset on Thursday, with joy. It's traditionally a holiday of dance, song and feasts. Simchat Torah, which means "rejoicing of the ...
Simchat Torah is observed on the 22nd to 23rd of Tishrei (Tishrei is the first month of the Jewish year). Upcoming dates: Jewish Year 5785: Sunset 24 October 2024 – Nightfall 24 October 2024 ...
One by one, as men were dancing with the Torah in celebration of the holiday of Simchat Torah, the phones in their pockets began buzzing. And they knew exactly what it was.
News Silent dancing on Simchat Torah? A joyous Jewish holiday is remade for a mournful anniversary. Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel took place on the only Jewish holiday with ‘joy’ in ...
On this coming Simchat Torah, we will once again dance with our Torahs. But, as we well know, the singing and dancing will never ever be the same as prior to October 7th 2023.