Carved on the worn remnant of a wooden panel at the exhibition “The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries,” at Yeshiva University Museum in the Center for Jewish History, can be read a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
When the fast-spreading Pacific Palisades fire in Los Angeles broke out on January 7, the staff at the Chabad House in neighboring Topanga Canyon knew immediately that the flames, driven by high winds ...
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 ...