Rabbi Menachem Rivkin welcomed families up one at a time. He offered a tiny shot of liquor for the men and a shout, "L'chaim -- to life." This scene was repeated time and time again on Sunday as the ...

Tuesday evening was a night for celebration and a joyous welcome by the Chabad House of Tallahassee to its new Torah. Chabad House is a Jewish organization for FSU students and others where they may ...

Five and a half centuries after the printing press was invented and decades after word processors came to dominate offices, 35-year-old Julie Seltzer is nearing completion of one of the few ...

MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. – Neil Yerman sits at his worktable, leaning forward with a jeweler’s intensity, his white-gloved hand guiding a goose-feather quill across a calf-skin parchment, sketching in each ...

There is a commandment in Judaism that says each Jewish person must write a Torah scroll, Judaism’s most sacred object containing the Five Books of Moses, in their lifetime, Chabad Center for Jewish ...

A new written Torah, the Unity Torah of Bellaire, was dedicated at the Shul of Bellaire a week before Rosh Hashana, setting the stage for the joyfulness of the High Holy Days, which will come to a ...

It almost felt like Moses coming down from Mount Sinai to give the Jewish people their first Torah scroll. Close to 400 people poured into Chabad Jewish Center of Laguna Beach in anticipation of a ...

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 ...

An Austin synagogue is set to dedicate first female-written Torahis set to dedicate the first Torah written by a female in Texas. "It's true what they say about Texans, they're a brilliant bunch," ...

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