Chanting Torah from the bimah, the synagogue’s stage, is one of the few ceremonial roles available to laypeople. But it’s not easy. Jews have to be able to read Hebrew and then learn the ...

The 62-year-old Diamond’s ambition to chant the entire Torah dates back 40 years, when she recited kaddish for her father at a woman’s minyan in Stony Brook, New York.

Parshat Shelach begins with a mission: God instructs Moses to send twelve leaders to scout the land of Canaan. The language ...

The Chabad of Downtown SRQ commissioned a scribe to write a holy scroll with feather and ink. The Torah took a year to ...

She chanted the Scroll of Esther, known as the Megillah, in front of a mixed-gender audience in suburban Washington, D.C. on the festival of Purim. Among the crowd were her grandfathers, who were ...

Created specifically by its leader Moshe Hezekiah, the Hebrew cantillations are distinct, blending the words of Torah with sounds and intonations from the Igbo language, spoken by 18 million people in ...

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 ...

On Simchat Torah, the scrolls that contain this literature are removed from the ark, the special place where they are kept at the front of the synagogue.While one or two scrolls are taken out during ...

Our Torah portion begins with the story of Jethro [a priest of Midian], father-in-law of Moses, who, after hearing about the splitting of the Red Sea and the war against Amalek, decided to join ...

The Jewish congregation, located in uptown Harrisburg, kicked off a fundraising and community-building initiative on Sunday that includes the inscribing of a new Torah scroll.

So, earlier this year when his synagogue, North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, began offering classes on chanting Torah, the first five books of the Bible, he signed up.

But for this week’s women’s reading at her synagogue, a new volunteer signed up to chant the ninth chapter. Still, despite her pioneering reading at age 12, and her decades of chanting, Lewin has ...