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Simchat Torah

People dance at Hostages Square
Posted inIsrael

Simchat Torah in Hostages Square lays bare divide over just how much to celebrate yet

by Deborah Danan October 16, 2025October 16, 2025

(JTA) — Rabba Anat Sharbat, the unofficial “rabbi of Hostages Square,” wept as she recited the Shehechiyanu blessing after lighting the candles to mark the beginning of Simchat Torah holiday […]

Rabbi Amanda Russell chants the opening lines of the Torah as an entire scroll is unrolled during the Simchat Torah celebration at Congregation Beth Sholom in San Francisco on Oct. 14. (David A.M. Wilensky/J. Staff)
Posted inJew in the Pew

Simchat Torah: ‘I need to dance with some Jews ASAP’

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky October 15, 2025October 15, 2025
a middle-aged man and two kids hang paper chains under a wooden sukkah
Posted inHigh Holidays

Family events for Sukkot and Simchat Torah around the Bay Area

Rahel Knight (Courtesy) by Rahel Knight September 22, 2025September 30, 2025
No-Bake Vegan Millionaire Squares (Photo/Faith Kramer)
Posted inSimchat Torah

No-bake ‘millionaire’ bars are a rich treat for a sweet Simchat Torah

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer October 13, 2022October 13, 2022
The first day of creation, according to the Nuremberg Chronicle
Posted inColumns

At Torah’s end, why do we start again so rapidly, leaving us no time to revel?

Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf by Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf October 1, 2021September 30, 2021
Adam and Eve as depicted in the Escorial Beatus, a 10th-century illuminated manuscript.
Posted inTorah

Adam and Eve and the problem of loneliness

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen October 16, 2020October 16, 2020
four phylo dough rolls with a white dip
Posted inRecipe

Try these rolled-up phyllo treats as we roll the Torah back to the beginning

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer October 21, 2019
Retired B’nai Emunah cantor and Reutlinger resident Henry Drejer belts out classic hazzanut while fellow resident Doris Langer beams at the camera. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inColumns

Starting the annual Torah cycle again — for the 70th, 80th, 90th time

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky October 20, 2017April 15, 2020
Reb Irwin Keller leads Hebrew songs of healing at Bnai Israel Jewish Center in Petaluma, Oct. 11, 2017 (Photo/Liz Harris)
Posted inNews

North Bay Jews pray for healing — and then they dance

by Liz Harris October 13, 2017March 19, 2018
Rabbi Lauren Henderson (left) and another student look at source sheets at a Jewish learning session at Base Hillel Chicago, November 2016. (Photo/Couretsy Hillel International)
Posted inSimchat Torah

Behold the ‘source sheet’ — the essential technology of modern Torah study

by Andrew Silow-Carroll October 11, 2017January 12, 2018

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