Just a few short weeks ago, on Shabbat, we read about Moshe: "He gazed, and there was a bush all aflame, yet the bush was not consumed.” (Parshat Shmot, Exodus, 3:2:) Moshe ponders how this is ...
An 800-year-old Jewish sage is coming to Westwood this week. One of the oldest biblical scrolls in the world, will be the center of a reception at Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel’s Levy Family ...
This Rosh Hashanah at Congregation Netivot Shalom in Teaneck, NJ, one of the sifrei Torah (Torah scrolls) we read from was new to our community, a repaired sefer Torah. As the sofer (scribe), Rabbi ...
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The Long Island firefighter who saved a sacred Sefer Torah from a burning Chabad on Wednesday said he was no “super hero” and was just doing what he was trained to do. Firefighter Michael Farca, 54, ...
As preparations for the gala Hachnasas Sefer Torah (dedication of a Torah scroll) to Yeshivas Beis Dovid in Jerusalem reach their climax, the Yeshiva's dean, Rabbi Avraham Weisenfeld, principals Rabbi ...
The void in the “Mrs. Miriam Lubling Hospitality-Bikur Cholim Room” at the NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan has been filled. The room, honoring Los Angeles’s Rubin family, now boasts its own ...
Akụkọ na-ekwu na a tọhapụla Noam Leibman, Rudy Rochman na Edouard David Benaym bụ ndị mba Israel na-eme ihe onyonyo a nwụchiri na Naijirịa, mana nwaanyị Naijirịa bụ Lisbon Agha a nwụchịrị ya na ndị a ...
Torah Scribe Jamie Shear in the Old City of Jerusalem. Not a few rabbinical eyebrows were raised last week in Israel when Rabbi Menachem Perl, head of the Tzomet Institute for Technology and Halacha, ...
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