When the Torah scroll is being carried, and also when it is lifted up, everyone who sees it must stand until the scroll is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tuesday evening was a night for celebration and a joyous welcome by the Chabad House of Tallahassee to its new Torah. Chabad House ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Much like a muscle, faith weakens faster when it isn’t used – a concept that extends to the physical scripture itself, members of Chisuk Emuna were told Sunday. The Jewish congregation, located in ...

The arrival this month of a new Torah scroll in Hudson was greeted with festivities and special letter-writing opportunities. The arrival this month of a new Torah scroll in Hudson was greeted with ...

When Brigitte Milo looks at the Torah scroll dedicated to the memory of her son, Nadav, who fell nearly 30 years ago in Lebanon, she still recalls its journey from rural Maine to Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu ...

Firefighter Michael Farca braved heavy smoke and flames to rescue a Torah scroll from the burning Chabad of Greenvale synagogue, located in the basement of a multi-tenant building on Northern Blvd., ...

While the Nazis stormed through the Czech Republic in World War II, they collected thousands of Jewish artifacts to create a “museum of an extinct race.” However, historians believe it was actually ...

Hundreds of families and congregants from Etz Chaim Synagogue took part in a procession through the streets of Mandarin, celebrating the completion of the handwritten Torah scroll -- a painstaking ...

The Memorial Scrolls Trust celebrated a 60th anniversary on Sunday. It has lent some 1,400 scrolls, once confiscated by the Nazis in Europe, to communities in 25 countries. By Milton Esterow Since the ...