Two new mobile apps are poised to revolutionize bar/bat mitzvah preparation, and possibly the whole practice of learning to chant Torah. This week, Rabbi Charlie Schwartz and Russel Neiss — Jewish ...
Jewish Publication Society, 965 pages, $75. Reviewing Joshua Jacobson’s encyclopedic new “Chanting the Hebrew Bible” is akin to summarizing the Torah while standing on one foot. Cantillation — which ...
Collaborative learning, aliya flashcards and tutor relationships empower rabbis to make torah chanting accessible for everyone. SAN FRANCISCO , CA, UNITED STATES ...
It was a Thursday evening in the winter, and the sun was sinking as I waited at a bus stop in Givat Shaul, practicing to chant my Torah reading from photocopied sheets of paper. Moses was late in ...
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 ...