Most tourists who make the pilgrimage to Masada have seen the ruins of the 2,000-year-old stone synagogue built by the Jewish Zealots who hid there from the Romans for four years before committing ...

Neil Yerman bends close to the parchment with a quill pen in his roughened hands, chanting softly in the natural light streaming through the windows of Temple Emanuel. Yerman repairs letters on a ...

When Beth Shalom Synagogue resumed in-person services June 12, those who attended had extra cause for celebration — two of the synagogue’s Torah scrolls had returned as well. The scrolls, each older ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Scribe Kevin Hale restores the scroll in preparation for the donation. A 100-year-old Torah scroll ...

The Torah scroll recently dedicated at Bucknell's Berelson Center for Jewish Life crossed continents before arriving on campus, where its placement in the center's sanctuary also served as a symbolic ...

Aug. 25—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 ...

From a World War II warehouse in Prague to Port St. Lucie, a torah scroll has found a new home at Temple Beth EI Israel. This scroll, which features the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, is one of ...

As the Sefaria organization has learned in the application process, designing a tiny graphic Torah comes with many questions and hurdles JERUSALEM (JTA) — Designing a new emoji is not simple. Sefaria, ...

WARSAW, Poland – U.S. service members and prominent members of the Jewish community throughout Europe gathered for a Torah scroll dedication for ritual use by the Ukrainian Army at the historic Nozyk ...

Old York Road Temple-Beth Am will display and rededicate its three Torah scrolls salvaged from Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust on June 3, coinciding with the Abington synagogue’s 75th-year jubilee ...