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 ...
(JNS) A unique Torah scroll written in part by families who lost loved ones in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre and the subsequent war in Gaza was dedicated on Monday evening at the Western Wall ...
A 2017 Tunisian news segment about the seizure of an ancient Torah manuscript has been falsely described as showing a Syrian news report taken at the basement of a palace that belonged to ousted ...
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 ...
The Memorial Scrolls Trust celebrated a 60th anniversary on Sunday. It has lent some 1,400 scrolls, once confiscated by the Nazis in Europe, to communities in 25 countries. By Milton Esterow Since the ...
From a World War II warehouse in Prague to Port St. Lucie, a torah scroll has found a new home at Temple Beth EI Israel. This scroll, which features the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, is one of ...
STOCKTON. THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF FOLSOM IN EL DORADO HILLS CELEBRATED THE COMPLETION OF A TORAH SCROLL TONIGHT. IT’S THE MOST SACRED OBJECT FOR THE JEWISH FAITH. KCRA 3’S ANDRES VALLE WAS AT TODAY’S ...
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 ...
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 ...