Developmentally, the text of the Torah is challenging for young children. The written text is not yet accessible to them because of their reading level, and even when read aloud, the language is often ...

In 1985, a Jewish-American astronaut read from the Torah in space. Jeffrey Hoffman, the first Jewish-American man to go into space, consulted a rabbi on how to observe Judaism on his first trip ...

Some of the teaching of the Torah can be presented to children as examples of ancient ... ‘Daughter of the Law’, learning to pray and to read the Torah in public. Hannukkah, the festival ...

(JTA) — Every seven years, in ancient times, Jewish men, women, and children would gather at the Temple on the first day of Sukkot to hear the king of Jerusalem read aloud from the Torah.

This week, we read about the birth of Jacob’s children. Twelve of his thirteen children were born in this week’s Torah portion. Jacob’s children all followed their father’s lead ...