On November 9, 1938, Rabbi Max and Ruth Nussbaum and their five year-old daughter Hannah stayed behind locked apartment doors in their upper-middle class Berlin neighborhood while Nazi-backed rioters ...

A synagogue in the northern English city of Bradford has given away its Torah scrolls as it prepares to shutter due to dwindling numbers. One of the five scrolls that used to belong to the Orthodox ...

RADNOR-From generation to generation-A Jewish tradition dating to Genesis flourishes at the Jack Barrack Hebrew Academy. Rabbi Kevin Hale, a scribe who repairs Torah scrolls, came to the school two ...

Aug. 25—TRAVERSE CITY — Something remarkable, even "miraculous," happened in the shadow of World War II that eventually reached the historic Beth Shalom Synagogue of Traverse City. After the downfall ...

MARLEI: ENSHRINED AT THE HEAD OF THE TEMPLE SITS THE SYNAGOGUE’S TORAH SCROLLS. >> THE TORAH SCROLL IS OUR MOST SACRED OBJECT. IT CONTAINS THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE. MARLEI: BUT ONE OF THE ...

Tuesday evening was a night for celebration and a joyous welcome by the Chabad House of Tallahassee to its new Torah. Chabad House is a Jewish organization for FSU students and others where they may ...

Old York Road Temple-Beth Am will display and rededicate its three Torah scrolls salvaged from Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust on June 3, coinciding with the Abington synagogue’s 75th-year jubilee ...

A question signed by a married couple: “Thank God, we find ourselves today in a good financial situation that allows us to invest for our future, as well as for our children. We are careful, as much ...

— Editor’s Note: Symbols of Faith is a new series in The Woodlands Villager exploring the symbols and icons associated with the various religious faiths found across the community. Have a tip or ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (JTA) — One family after another hurried through Erin Jones-Avni’s front door, anxious to get their first glimpse of the new arrival — to admire its ornate silver breastplate and ...

BERLIN — A German Protestant minister has handed over segments of a long-lost Torah scroll to the city of Görlitz in southeast Germany, 83 years after his father, a town policeman, came into ...

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 ...