Temple Or Rishon near Sacramento has rededicated a Torah scroll that belonged to a small Czech Jewish community before the ...
The weekly Torah portion ‘Beshalach’ concludes with the first battle the Jewish people faced after leaving Egypt – the war ...
Traditional Torah scrolls are fairly large items that are expensive and time-consuming to produce. They contain the Five Books of Moses written in Hebrew by a trained scribe on specially treated ...
UVA students selected objects for display and crafted museum text for The Fralin Museum of Art’s newest exhibition.
The object comes encased in a weatherproof holy ark that has shoulder straps and can function as a podium on which to read scripture.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sarah inscribed 2 meaningful lines in the historic “Washington Torah” ...
Perhaps our Jewish past, or at least the stories ... where it stands out among the more typical velvet-covered scrolls. The traditional Persian Torah is encased in a tall, hinged silver cylinder ...
When Oleg Rostovtsev hovered between life and death after a serious operation last April, he asked friends and family to do ...
Flames were already attacking the campus of Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center when the cantor, Ruth Berman Harris, and three companions rushed in to rescue its sacred Torah scrolls. Physically ...
When the fast-spreading Pacific Palisades fire in Los Angeles broke out on January 7, the staff at the Chabad House in neighboring Topanga Canyon knew immediately that the flames, driven by high ...