On Holmby, Wolpe dedicated the program’s sixth hakafah — traditionally, seven hakafot are performed on Simchat Torah — to all ...

Police in Israel have reportedly arrested a rabbi suspected of stealing Torah scrolls from the synagogue of his community near Be’er Sheva. Kikar HaShabat, a hebrew-language news site on religious ...

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 ...

ORO VALLEY, Ariz. (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 ...

Scroll was discovered in the archives of the University of Bologna. ROME May 29, 2013— -- An Italian professor believes he has found the world's oldest and most complete torah scroll safely ...

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 ...

As Holocaust survivor Sidney Schenk entered the sanctuary of the newly established Beth Am synagogue, he carried in his arms a fellow Holocaust survivor: the Torah scroll of Roudnice nad Labem, a ...

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 ...