There is no need to explain why there will be no joy on Simchat Torah this year in the western Negev. The looming first anniversary of the...
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Simchat Torah 2024: A Time to Dance, A Time to Cry ... This coming Simchat Torah marks the first one-year anniversary (on the Hebrew calendar) of...
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Simchat Torah is an incredibly joyous day that is not really suited for grief. And this year, one year after a day that is associated with so...
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How will we commemorate it? How can we dance, sing, and celebrate with the memory of what took place on that day? Isn't that what the Yizkor memorial ceremony...
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Simchat Torah became not a celebration but an abomination. We were taking swigs of whisky while hundreds of Jewish women were being gang-raped, babies burned,...
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This is how we dance this Simchat Torah: not with innocence or naivete, but with triumph, with the profound understanding of who we are and how...
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Investor Daniel Loeb launches 'Simchat Torah Challenge' to get 10,000 Jews to study Bible to commemorate Oct. 7 attacks ... As American Jews...
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Share this: ... When more than a dozen Jewish groups convened last year in Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza for an annual celebration of Simchat Torah,...
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Simchat Torah, October 7, will forever be etched in our hearts and minds as the day of the greatest massacre of our people since the Holocaust.
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On Simchat Torah, we dance because we are the children of God, and we celebrate that. No power can take that away, not the Egyptians, Haman, or the Greeks.
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