It was a deeply personal ceremony for Kayla Spellman. There, the mother of four proudly watched her 13-year-old daughter stand at the platform, carefully reciting Hebrew from a hand-written Torah ...

(RNS) — A few years ago, the Conservative congregation of 900 families overlooking Lake Michigan took on a challenge. This past year 210 laypeople stepped up. HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (RNS) — Growing up in ...

In a knowledge world ruled by books and pages and digitized memory, why do Jews hold onto the scroll? As Shavuot and its focus on receiving the Torah approach, I must ask: Could it be that rolled ...

Seeach Sod, one of Israel’s leading organizations serving people with intellectual disabilities and autism, has launched a campaign to complete a new Torah scroll that will be dedicated to its ...

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 ...

(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.

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A Tucson congregation’s 250-year-old Torah scroll was visited by a Jewish scribe this week for restoration. The congregation received Sefer Torah #531 from the Memorial Scrolls Trust of London, ...

As Holocaust survivor Sidney Schenk entered the sanctuary of the newly established Beth Am synagogue, he carried in his arms a fellow Holocaust survivor: the Torah scroll of Roudnice nad Labem, a ...

Yisrael Yudkin, a 22-year-old Israeli Defense Forces deputy company commander, was killed in Gaza during a rescue mission. To honor Yudkin, the Chabad of Downtown SRQ commissioned a handwritten Torah ...