At the centre of the shul (synagogue) is the holy ark. Over the front of the ark is a curtain. Open the curtains and there ...

Together we witnessed a powerful moment of Jewish continuity, along with a particularly unique expression of Sephardic continuity. This was the Bat Mitzvah of my closest friend’s daughter.

Our holy book is actually a collection of books called the Tanakh, and the first five, known as the Torah are the most important. In the shul, we usually read the Torah aloud in Hebrew from ...

Lis Harris, in her book Holy Days, describes it as otherworldly ... They believe that the Torah, the five books of Moses, is the literal word of God, and that carrying out this word is what ...