In the basement of the Saint Louis Art museum a luminous tapestry — the centerpiece of the exhibit “Signed in Silk: Introducing a Sacred Jewish Textile” — dazzles as if lit from within. The ...

Metal thread embroidered silk, the pale blue silk ground profusely embroidered in silver thread, polychrome silks and sequins with an archway with a hanging lamp and floral spray issuing from an urn, ...

Event: Dedication of new Torah mantles and Ark curtain at West Suburban Temple Har Zion, River Forest Highlight: The five mantles for each book of the Torah and the Ark curtain were fabricated and ...

MILFORD — The Chabad House Jewish Center unveiled its new Torah ark during a dedication ceremony on Sept. 11 of the “Community Shul" — its synagogue — which also commemorated 9/11 heroes and the fight ...

On December 14, 2023, Sotheby’s in New York City held a sale comprising the third and final part of the Abraham Halpern (1936-2017) collection of Judaica. While the first two sales, held consecutively ...

For a Torah curtain, it certainly has come a long way. Almost exactly 65 years to the day after Kristallnacht, the curtain, or parochet — which once belonged to a congregation of German Jewish exiles ...

Trevor Higgins gets a hug from Rabbi Shira Stutman, at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue after delivering a portable Torah ark that he built for the temple. On the left is Aaron Shneyer, who will take part ...

MILTON -- Clear, bright afternoon light filled the sanctuary of the almost-finished Temple Beth Shalom of the Blue Hills earlier this week. The Torah ark and its freshly-crafted curtain were closed, ...

Civic and Jewish communal leaders joined today in voicing shock and outrage at the desecration by unknown vandals this weekend of Congregation Bikur Cholim, where five Torah scrolls were slashed, a ...

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