Getting a Torah is more complex than simply ordering one. A special scribe in Israel known as a sofer created the JCC’s Torah especially for the Downtown synagogue. The scribe spent a year ...

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — A Torah buried underground for 20 years to protect it from Nazi occupiers was again saved from a fire that destroyed the Chabad of Greater Orlando headquarters Sunday.

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 ...

Yonkers police are trying to track down the thief who stole a Torah from a city synagogue on Friday, just days before Yom Kippur. The unidentified burglar also walked off with a guitar and a laptop ...

(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 ...

The only working synagogue here is hidden behind a cluster of ramshackle storage sheds in the backyard of a rotting czarist-era building. The modest 94-year-old institution, located along a side ...

The groups joined with the Jewish community to propose a yearlong celebration of Thuringia’s 900-year Jewish heritage, which will begin in October 2020. BERLIN (JTA) — The Jewish Community of ...

Granny Smith apples piled into a box beside a U-Press apple-cider making station; Photos by Ryan Torok Early Sunday morning on Sept. 15, families from Shomrei Torah Synagogue’s (STS) religious school ...