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What is Simchat Torah? Hostage release transforms Jewish holiday forever linked to terror

"This Simchat Torah, we will dance again." That refrain was echoed coast-to-coast by American Jews on Monday, Oct. 13, as they prepared to celebrate one of their faith's most joyous holidays following ...
Jewish Journal

The Inconsistency in the Torah exchange, part 1: How do we make sense of the Torah’s many contradictions?

Joshua A. Berman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Hebrew Bible at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is the author of Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought. The ...