Women are permitted to dance with a Torah scroll on the Simchat Torah holiday, a national-religious rabbinical organization has ruled. The Beit Hillel organization posted the religious ruling on ...

This new Torah scroll is a gift to Chabad Lubavitch of South Texas. The late Anita Indyk and her husband, Mel, donated to and initiated the fund drive for the $32,000 Torah scroll.

For the first time in its 26-year history, the feminist prayer group Women of the Wall managed to read from a full-sized Torah scroll Monday (April 20) after one of its members surreptitiously ...

The notion of women writing a Torah scroll is unusual in Judaism, even though more and more of them are becoming rabbis and cantors, according to Ellen Bob, Congregation Etz Chayim’s executive ...