A Torah scroll valued at more than $50,000 has been reunited with its owner following the arrest of the crook who stole it from a Queens yeshiva three months ago, prosecutors said Monday. Saul Colon, ...

Family and friends in Raanana dedicated a Torah scroll topped with a silver crown containing Dan Wajdenbaum’s combat helmet, ...

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 ...

At Charles de Gaulle International Airport, a woman shouted at a haredi Jewish man, telling him to “leave France," and spat ...

(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.

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 — ...

BERLIN (JTA) — 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 ...

WARSAW, Poland – U.S. service members and prominent members of the Jewish community throughout Europe gathered for a Torah scroll dedication for ritual use by the Ukrainian Army at the historic Nozyk ...

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 ...

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A Torah scroll that disappeared from a Dutch synagogue following the Nazi invasion into the Netherlands has been rediscovered 80 years later and returned to the Jewish community. The ...