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simchat torah
Simchat Torah: 7 Rounds
Jewish Journal
October 14, 2014
Simchat Torah rounds–celebrating the seven species with a simple recipe.
Simchat Torah: Celebrating Torah’s ending and beginning
Jewish Journal
October 14, 2014
People are drinking, singing and dancing. It’s loud and crowded. No, you’re not at a bar — or even a bar mitzvah. It’s Simchat Torah.
Rabbinic group: Women permitted to dance with Torah scroll
Jewish Journal
October 13, 2014
Women are permitted to dance with a Torah scroll on the Simchat Torah holiday, an Israeli modern Orthodox rabbinical organization ruled.
Schools caution on alcohol during Simchat Torah
Jared Sichel
September 24, 2013
Dozens of men sit around a few tables, humming a soft Chasidic niggun (tune), swaying slowly back and forth, noshing on cold cuts, salads and light snacks. Some are sipping on small cups of vodka. Most wear white dress shirts, black dress pants and a long black coat.
Israeli rabbi said to be suspected of stealing Torah scrolls
Jewish Journal
October 10, 2012
Police in Israel have reportedly arrested a rabbi suspected of stealing Torah scrolls from the synagogue of his community near Be’er Sheva.
The Jews, stuffed cabbage and Simchat Torah
Jewish Journal
October 8, 2012
It’s almost encoded in your Jewish DNA: How you make your stuffed cabbage all depends on where your grandmother came from.
Sukkot and Simchat Torah calendar
Ryan Torok
September 28, 2012
Help the LGBT congregation build its sukkah and add decorations made with recycled and found oubjects. Service and potluck follow. Sun. 10 a.m. (sukkah building), 4:30 p.m. (sukkah decorating), 6 p.m. (service and potluck). Free. Beth Chayim Chadashim, 6090 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles. (323) 931-7023. bcc-la.org.
Wanna drink? Think again!
Louis Keene
March 2, 2007
Recognizing alcohol\’s long-standing presence in Jewish custom, tradition and culture — especially on Purim, when drinking is a mitzvah — and hearing from some rabbis that it would be impossible to have shuls go completely dry, Aleinu has tried to work directly with the shuls and parents to take responsibility for their teens.
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