How to honor this tradition while memorializing those lost since last Simchat Torah, and centering the 101 hostages still being held by Hamas, has preoccupied rabbis and lay leaders. Myer’s ...

Our Torah portion begins with the story of Jethro [a priest of Midian], father-in-law of Moses, who, after hearing about the splitting of the Red Sea and the war against Amalek, decided to join ...