(RNS) — Jewish life was nearly extinguished by the Nazis. But because of a historical quirk, Czech Jewish liturgical objects, such as Torah scrolls, survived. Now, one such scroll has made it back.

Two Torah scrolls, one complete and one incomplete, were found in Poland’s Sokolow Podlaski district. The Torah scrolls found Aug. 20 are believed to have belonged to a synagogue in nearby Wegrow. A ...

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Aug. 25—TRAVERSE CITY — Something remarkable, even "miraculous," happened in the shadow of World War II that eventually reached the historic Beth Shalom Synagogue of Traverse City. After the downfall ...

From a World War II warehouse in Prague to Port St. Lucie, a torah scroll has found a new home at Temple Beth EI Israel. This scroll, which features the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, is one of ...

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When Beth Shalom Synagogue resumed in-person services June 12, those who attended had extra cause for celebration — two of the synagogue’s Torah scrolls had returned as well. The scrolls, each older ...

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 ...

Police in Israel have reportedly arrested a rabbi suspected of stealing Torah scrolls from the synagogue of his community near Be’er Sheva. Kikar HaShabat, a hebrew-language news site on religious ...

The Torah scroll had not been seen since Kristallnacht, the pogrom against synagogues and Jewish property in German-speaking lands on Nov. 9 and 10, 1938. BERLIN (JTA) — A German Protestant minister ...