Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin dedicated the scroll to their son Hersh, the 23-year-old American Israeli wounded at the site ...

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, the senior rabbi at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in Manhattan, is retiring at a challenging time ...

The Torah was written to merit and honor Hersh and all the hostages. She explained it was here that the family joyously ...

Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST), the world’s largest LGBTQ synagogue, said farewell to Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, who is ...

She is now stepping down from that role and shifting into retirement. The New York City synagogue that she led for 32 years — ...

Noy Zafrani, the fiancée of Yuval Revia, was murdered on Simchat Torah together with him and his brother, Noam at the ...

As a moment in time, the Oct. 7 massacre was, paradoxically, an event both anomalous and familiar, at once exceptional and ...

The story of a gentle yeshiva scholar who decided to take a tank commander's course to help defend his country. The IDF told ...

הכנסת ספר התורהצילום: חיים טויטו Rabbi Shaul Avdiel of the Netzach Yehuda Battalion noted that "the Torah scroll came through the broken fence, when the murderers invaded Israel on Simchat Torah, and ...

On one of her final Shabbat mornings as senior rabbi at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, New York City’s pioneering LGBTQ-oriented synagogue, Sharon Kleinbaum was presented by her junior clergy ...