A family joins others at the Milken Community High School to ink in a letter of a Torah scroll that was recovered from the Holocaust, remembering Shavuot, when the Torah first was given to the Jewish ...

Even though Erma Lipschultz has revered the Torah for as long as she can remember, nothing in her 92 years prepared her for the moment she helped create one. One Hebrew letter is all she wrote – one ...

The prophecy of Jacob over Judah is a profound statement of expectation of the coming Messiah, in which every word – indeed ...

The Jewish Home for the Aging has never had a Torah it could call its own. Since the home first opened in 1912, synagogues or individuals have donated Siferei Torah to the senior-living community, but ...

The Jewish community of Chapman University had cause for celebration Sunday when the last of the 304,805 Hebrew letters were painstakingly inked onto a parchment scroll, marking the completion of the ...

(JTA) — When the pandemic kept Rabbi Emily Meyer stuck at home last year, she took up a hobby familiar to any elementary school student — doodling. But Meyer, a Jewish educator in the Pittsburgh area, ...

KYIV, Ukraine (JTA) — More than two years after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote its first letter, his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog has inked the final letters of Torah scroll ...

Are You A Kosher Letter? Every Jew is a letter in the Torah; the question is, are you a kosher letter? The Torah tells us that 603,550 Jews came out of Egypt. Kabbalah proclaimed that there are six ...

told a small gathering at the Jewish Association for Residential Care auditorium last Tuesday. “It takes a whole year to write a Torah scroll and every letter is special, every letter is precious,” ...

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 ...

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 ...