What should have been a weekend of celebration in Israel took a tragic turn on Saturday after the Hamas militant group attacked the southern area of the country on several fronts. Saturday’s attack ...

Do you know what today is? In Leviticus 23, this particular holy day is called Shemini Atzeret in Hebrew, or The Eighth Day of Assembly in English. Many people have never heard of this holy day. And ...

A synagogue in New Jersey will be celebrating the upcoming Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah holidays on a single day, rather than on two consecutive days as is normally the case outside Israel. In ...

Why the last festival in the fall holiday season should be a "day just for picnics with wine and bread." (JTA) — Shemini Atzeret, the last festival in the fall Jewish holiday cycle, begins on Sunday ...

I was hoping to get through this holiday cycle without debating the mechitza — the wall that divides the genders in Orthodox shuls. I’ve committed to sampling all iterations of observance without ...

We just crowned God as our king on Rosh Hashanah, and as Proverbs 14:28 states, “The glory of the king is in numerous people.” We delight in bringing majesty to God in our crowded synagogues and at ...