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Of course, each Simhat Torah flag has an apple and candle, customary among East European Jewry.
Menachem Wecker: Mark Podwal's New Jewish Calendar (PHOTO) 2010
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Of course, each Simhat Torah flag has an apple and candle, customary among East European Jewry.
Menachem Wecker: Mark Podwal's New Jewish Calendar (PHOTO) 2010
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Many groups progressed to conducting full-fledged Simhat Torah services for women only — services in which women read the Torah portion aloud and gave aliyyot to every woman present.
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Jews have always danced with the Torah scrolls in processionals on the holiday of Simhat Torah, and there are movement processionals on other holidays, as well as during the weekly Sabbath services.
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In 2000 a separate Torah reading was held for women on Simhat Torah and in 2001 the WTG also read the Megillah on Purim.
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Simhat Torah had proved to be a particularly frustrating experience for Orthodox women as all of its customs and celebrations are tied to the synagogue and formal prayer.
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It was Simhat Torah, and the service was crowded, no doubt as crowded as those synagogues in Germany in 1936 or in Iran in our own time.
The truth about Jews in Iran.... GayandRight 2009
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On the holiday of Simhat Torah we even dance with the Torah, celebrating all the words wrapped inside.
THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001
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On the holiday of Simhat Torah we even dance with the Torah, celebrating all the words wrapped inside.
THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001
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From Selihot through Simhat Torah, we weave a picture of the world as we want it to be, as we hope it will be.
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