Simchat Torah in the community

Congregants at Kol Dorot celebrate Simchat Torah as the Torah was unrolled and held aloft and its ending and beginning were chanted aloud. (Courtesy Kol Dorot)

Parents and children learn about Simchat Torah as Rabbi Arthur Weiner opens a Torah scroll at a pre-holiday gathering at the JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah. Children made sukkahs out of graham crackers and frosting with the roofs of pretzels and green candy. (Sandra Alpern)

At Temple Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn, Debbie Propper Lesnoy, the director of the shul’s Helen Troum Nursery School, shows the Torah to the children as Alan Lewis and Rabbi Baruch Zeilicovich re-rolled the scroll to begin the new year. (Courtesy Temple Beth Sholom)