IRVINE – Pushing his glasses up above the bridge of his nose, a rabbi leaned toward a table, took a white feather quill pen and carefully penned a Hebrew letter on a parchment scroll. As Rabbi Leib ...

Friends, family and members of the Central Avenue Synagogue, Chabad House of Highland Park, gathered in Pam and Leonard Cohen’s dining room to witness the completion of a new Torah scroll. Dipping the ...

Neil Yerman bends close to the parchment with a quill pen in his roughened hands, chanting softly in the natural light streaming through the windows of Temple Emanuel. Yerman repairs letters on a ...

MOUNT LAUREL – Rabbi Moshe Druin pinched the quill of a kosher turkey between his fingers and dipped its sharpened point into black ink whose secret recipe he does not know. Spread before him under ...

Ronald Reagan was president. Democratic candidate Walter F. Mondale was trying to embarrass him in televised debates. And on the peaceful Mount Wilson Lane campus of Ner Israel Rabbinical College, in ...