Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote the first letter, and now Israeli President Isaac Herzog has written the last letter of a Torah scroll of solidarity which is meant to symbolise peace and ...

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 ...

Sefaria is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the cultivation of Jewish learning. It has assembled a far-reaching library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation, ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — In the Jewish faith, it is commanded that every congregation write a Torah. In the last 20 years since the Congregations Agudas Achim last wrote a Torah scroll it has grown from 200 ...

Congregation Beth Am Israel in Penn Valley marked the start of its Torah, Ruach, Limmud Campaign with a Torah writing celebration weekend from April 3 to 6. The events included Torah writing sessions ...

The 18th century Sulzbacher Torah, which survived Kristallnacht and lay unnoticed for decades in a cabinet in a synagogue, will be returned to ritual use. (JTA) — Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel ...

The Jewish Home for the Aging has never had a Torah it could call its own. Since the home first opened in 1912, synagogues or individuals have donated Siferei Torah to the senior-living community, but ...

Several hundred people celebrated the completion of the writing of a Torah scroll at Downtown Jewish Center Chabad in Fort Lauderdale. The Grand Torah Celebration featured a procession and dancing ...

When Gavriel Kedem became a bar mitzvah, he was focused on the usual things: chanting the parsha, giving his dvar, the people watching. He wasn’t thinking about it as a historic moment. But it was — ...