New Year, New Flag: Conservative/Masorti movement puts a pluralistic spin on the Simchat Torah flag

When Rabbi Tzvi Graetz was a little boy in the Israel of the 1970s, he would visit the shuk, or market, with his father every High Holiday season to buy flags to wave during Simchat Torah, when the giving of the Torah is celebrated. “It was something we would wait for,” reminisced Graetz, the executive […]