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Dancing with the Torah
Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jews dancing with Torah scrolls during the Simchat Torah celebration...
© Menahem Kahana—AFP/Getty Images
Simchat Torah
The Feast of the Rejoicing of the Law at the Synagogue in Leghorn, oil on...
Photograph by Katie Chao. The Jewish Museum, New York City, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Gruss, JM 28-55
Torah
On the festival of Simḥat Torah, the Scroll of the Law is shown to the congregation...
BBC Hulton Picture Library