BERLIN (JTA) — A German Protestant minister has handed over segments of a long lost Torah scroll to the city of Görlitz in southeast Germany, 83 years after his father, a town policeman, came into ...

When Gavriel Kedem became a bar mitzvah, he was focused on the usual things: chanting the parsha, giving his dvar, the people watching. He wasn’t thinking about it as a historic moment. But it was — ...

In a knowledge world ruled by books and pages and digitized memory, why do Jews hold onto the scroll? As Shavuot and its focus on receiving the Torah approach, I must ask: Could it be that rolled ...

ORO VALLEY, Arizona (KGUN) — For the Jewish community, a Torah serves as an instruction manual for navigating their faith and interpersonal relationships. Now, a nearly 200-year-old version, once at ...

Women of the Wall attempt to use handicapped elderly woman to help them smuggle Torah scroll into Western Wall Plaza, ...

(RNS) — Jewish life was nearly extinguished by the Nazis. But because of a historical quirk, Czech Jewish liturgical objects, such as Torah scrolls, survived. Now, one such scroll has made it back.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 25—TRAVERSE CITY — Something remarkable, even "miraculous," happened in the shadow of World War II that eventually reached ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Rabbi Levitin retrieves Torah scroll Sunday from fire-damaged house. Less than three days before a ...

AND WE HAVE AN UPDATE JUST INTO THE KCRA 3 NEWSROOM ON A STORY WE’VE BEEN FOLLOWING. A SACRED SACRAMENTO SCROLL THAT WAS CONFISCATED IN JERUSALEM EARLIER THIS MONTH HAS BEEN RETURNED. THE GROUP WOMEN ...

The executive director of the Women of the Wall was detained by police after smuggling a Torah scroll into the women’s section of the Western Wall. Lesley Sachs was questioned Monday at the Israel ...

A torah scroll was damaged when vandals poured laundry detergent on the religious text at a George Washington University fraternity house. “There was a Christian Bible and a Jewish Torah in the room, ...

The Torah scroll had not been seen since Kristallnacht, the pogrom against synagogues and Jewish property in German-speaking lands on Nov. 9 and 10, 1938. BERLIN (JTA) — A German Protestant minister ...