Since the members of Temple Beth Kodesh — a Conservative synagogue in Boynton Beach — have learned more about the history of their Holocaust Torah in the last year, they have come to cherish the Torah ...

Chief Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin, of the Central Synagogue of Moscow, presented to a visiting American rabbi a gift of a 200-year old silver breastplate for the Torah Scroll in the museum of the ...

NEW ORLEANS — A Los Angeles teenager helped bring joy and solace to a storm-shattered New Orleans Jewish congregation Sunday through a gift of a prized sefer Torah scroll. “Although I haven’t met all ...

The breastplate/choshen of the High Priest was ordained to be securely attached to the ceremonial apron/ephod that covered the body of the High Priest. The Torah specifically mentions that the ...

A Bronx synagogue suffered a terrible blow this week: the theft of three sifrey-Torah, or Torah scrolls, each one worth $45,000. The theft at the Orthodox shul, Young Israel of Mosholu Parkway, on ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Illustrated in Grossman, Grace Cohen ...