NEW YORK (AP) — Customarily, Simchat Torah is one of the most joyous days of the Jewish calendar ... and dance around a Torah scroll. “This holiday is characterized by utterly unbridled ...
Now, those communities face the challenge of figuring out how to celebrate the same holiday one year later. “On the one hand, it is a festival, a day when it is forbidden to give eulogies and to mourn ...
and Jews greet each other with "Shana Tova," meaning "a good year." The holiday is celebrated on the first and second days of Tishrei, the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar, which this year ...