PINECREST, Fla. -- -- PINECREST, Fla. -- Dinner was over by the time the party's honored guest showed up at the table. The visitor to Sandy Grossman's home was a Torah. Most Jews see the holy scroll ...

(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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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

A fraternity house at George Washington University was vandalized over the weekend, including desecration of a Torah scroll, according to the university and Tau Kappa Epsilon. “Our entire chapter is ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Life's darkest events can sometimes lead to new sources of light. Last weekend's completion, dedication and celebration of a new ...

A George Washington University fraternity was vandalized last weekend, including a Torah scroll hit with laundry detergent. The incident occurred at the on-campus house of the Alpha-Pi chapter of Tau ...