The last mitzvah commanded by the Torah is to participate in the writing of a Torah scroll. In this spirit, a new Torah scroll was commissioned for the Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School, the first ...
If you search Google images for “rabbi,” what you’ll see is a lot of men, most of them with gray beards and black hats common to leaders of the Orthodox faith. You have to scroll a ways to find a ...
Watermelon on the plate during a lesson on Sunday about Passover’s ritualist and symbolic Seder meal was a surprise to some adults at Temple Beit Torah, a reform synagogue in Colorado Springs. Dr.
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) kicked off Shabbat services on Friday, March 27, by observing two important facts about the date: One, that it was ...
“The Torah was the first building code,” said Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST), the prominent LGBTQ-welcoming synagogue. Stephen Cassell, principal at Architecture ...
(New York Jewish Week) — Sharon Kleinbaum, the first full-time rabbi of Manhattan’s Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, announced that she will step down after three decades leading New York’s ...
On April 3, I had the extraordinary opportunity and privilege of being able to return to an amazing synagogue where I spent two years as a Rabbinic intern. My time as an intern at Congregation Beit ...
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah officially opened its modern new sanctuary on Manhattan’s West Side on April 3. Jubilant congregants blew a shofar and Mayor Bill de Blasio and Sen. Chuck Schumer spoke ...