Simmy Cohen hoped his original video would resonate with other Orthodox Jews — but it quickly found a much broader audience. (JTA) — Simmy Cohen has hardly read from the Torah since his bar mitzvah.

The author saw the Milky Way with ease the night before chanting the Haftarah associated with the new moon and Shabbat. Every Saturday morning, a certain portion of the Torah is read so that the ...

When Ronald Rosenblatt chants the haftarah for congregants at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills, the 70-year-old West Los Angeles dentist feels a deep connection with his past. His late father regularly ...

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — I hear America singing, except it’s in Hebrew. Approaching Shavuot, the time of matan Torah, the giving of the Torah, I have heard the song of the new Torah reader in a storefront ...

(JTA) Simmy Cohen has hardly read from the Torah since his bar mitzvah. When he’s not working at his marketing job from his home in Queens, New York, Cohen spends far more time these days reading ...

It was a disconcerting thought, a wake-up call that interrupted my reverie as I thought fondly back on four years of teaching second-grade Hebrew school. I realized with a start that the students I’d ...

From the vantage point of our already traumatic new millennium, "Old Men at Midnight," celebrated author Chaim Potok’s latest collection of three novellas, requires us to look back in anguish at a ...

Over this six-week course, Cantor Oringel will walk you through the steps of Torah trope. You’ll be chanting at services before you know it. Students need to have a basic understanding of Hebrew ...

If you frequent Jewish websites, I am sure that you have come across the name ‘Trope Trainer’ before. After seeing it so many times all over the place I decided I wanted to see for myself what all the ...