The art deco-style JAA ark dates to at least 1933, when the Jewish Home for the Aged — the precursor to JAA — opened its doors in Squirrel Hill, after nearly three decades in the Hill District, said ...

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

Yonatan Buzaglo, a student at the Karnei Shomron Hesder Yeshiva and a soldier in the Nahal Brigade’s 932nd Unit, returned to his yeshiva for Simchat Torah carrying a plush Torah scroll he had ...

How a Maine state senator helped bring a Torah scroll from rural Maine to Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu. When Brigitte Milo looks at the Torah scroll dedicated to the memory of her son, Nadav, who fell nearly ...

Members of Temple Beth El Chabad, the historic Rutherford synagogue destroyed in an Aug. 8 fire, gathered at the New Mount Zion cemetery in Lyndhurst on Aug. 28 for a special ceremony to bury Torah ...

During Sunday morning services at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, Rabbi Jeffrey Fox had just opened the door to the ark and turned to put his prayerbook down on the lectern when he heard an ...

Congregation Beth El in Rutherford, N.J., held a Sabbath service near the charred debris that remained. Members pledged to rebuild. By Mark Bonamo Even after their synagogue had burned to the ground, ...

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 ...

A Roslyn Heights firefighter’s quick thinking recently saved a sacred Torah from a blaze in Greenvale. Michael Farca, a volunteer with the Roslyn Highlands Fire Company, was among the first responders ...

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman honored a volunteer firefighter Wednesday, June 25, for rescuing a sacred Torah scroll from a synagogue basement engulfed in flames, calling it a courageous act ...

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 ...