A Torah scroll funded by the collection of bottles and cans for recycling was brought into Kfar HaRoeh Yeshiva yesterday. The project was led by the yeshiva students together with Rabbi Itay Zore'a, ...

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 ...

The rare medieval scroll is a unique example of Jewish history, displaying distinctive letter forms and decorative markings ...

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 ...

HUDSON — On Sunday, July 7, over 250 people from around Columbia County joined together at Hudson’s Historic Opera House for a festive luncheon welcoming the Columbia County Jewish Community’s new ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Members of the Jacksonville Jewish community gathered Sunday afternoon to honor Rabbi Yaakov Fisch with one of Judaism’s most sacred gifts: a newly written Sefer Torah. Hundreds ...

Yisrael Yudkin, a 22-year-old Israeli Defense Forces deputy company commander, was killed in Gaza during a rescue mission. To honor Yudkin, the Chabad of Downtown SRQ commissioned a handwritten Torah ...

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, that’s ...

BOISE, Idaho — The Jewish community in Boise gathered on Feb. 22 to celebrate the installation of Rabbi Johanna Hershenson, who is taking over after around 30 years of service from Rabbi Daniel Fink.