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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...