Simmy Cohen hoped his original video would resonate with other Orthodox Jews — but it quickly found a much broader audience. (JTA) — Simmy Cohen has hardly read from the Torah since his bar mitzvah.

The author saw the Milky Way with ease the night before chanting the Haftarah associated with the new moon and Shabbat. Every Saturday morning, a certain portion of the Torah is read so that the ...

(JTA) Simmy Cohen has hardly read from the Torah since his bar mitzvah. When he’s not working at his marketing job from his home in Queens, New York, Cohen spends far more time these days reading ...

It was a disconcerting thought, a wake-up call that interrupted my reverie as I thought fondly back on four years of teaching second-grade Hebrew school. I realized with a start that the students I’d ...