A Tucson congregation’s 250-year-old Torah scroll was visited by a Jewish scribe this week for restoration. The congregation received Sefer Torah #531 from the Memorial Scrolls Trust of London, ...
When the pandemic hit, Rabbi Asher Knight used one of Temple Beth El’s sacred Torahs during the high holidays — chosen because it symbolized perseverance. The artifact was among 1,500 Czech Memorial ...
It was a deeply personal ceremony for Kayla Spellman. There, the mother of four proudly watched her 13-year-old daughter stand at the platform, carefully reciting Hebrew from a hand-written Torah ...
Things don’t just disappear, I thought to myself, when I learned in 2010 that the Torah my grandmother carried out of war-ravaged Poland wasn’t in the Great Synagogue of Jerusalem, where it was ...
TRAVERSE CITY – Something remarkable, even “miraculous,” happened in the shadow of World War II that eventually reached the historic Beth Shalom Synagogue of Traverse City. After the downfall of the ...
Congregation Kol Ami brings in a leading sofer to tend to the exacting art of mending God’s words — “Only when you touch a Torah,” he says, “will Torah touch you.” ...
When I was a kid growing up in New York City in the 1950s, Torah mantles, the cloth covering that protects the Torah, were blue velvet with gold trim. Occasionally, there was a lion, and there was ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Jewish holiday known as Simchat Torah, which begins at sunset on Oct. 17, 2022, encompasses all these emotions. During the ...