A Torah scroll was dedicated at the Bnei Akiva Bar Kokhba branch in Yeruham in memory of Captain Itai Seif, a platoon ...

(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.

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 ...

Most tourists who make the pilgrimage to Masada have seen the ruins of the 2,000-year-old stone synagogue built by the Jewish Zealots who hid there from the Romans for four years before committing ...

Students at Kfar HaRoeh Yeshiva collected hundreds of thousands of bottles and cans over about two years and used the ...

When Beth Shalom Synagogue resumed in-person services June 12, those who attended had extra cause for celebration — two of the synagogue’s Torah scrolls had returned as well. The scrolls, each older ...

When the Torah counts the people by tribes and families, it teaches the art of integration: Each individual is counted on his ...

Two Torah scrolls, one complete and one incomplete, were found in Poland’s Sokolow Podlaski district. The Torah scrolls found Aug. 20 are believed to have belonged to a synagogue in nearby Wegrow. A ...

Eat your heart out, Indiana Jones. Police in Turkey say they have seized a Torah scroll believed to date back at least 2,000 years — and have arrested five people suspected of illegally dealing in ...

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 ...