A sacrilegious sneak stole four Torah scrolls worth a quarter-million dollars from Avenue O Synagogue in Midwood on Oct. 25 — during the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, which celebrates the holy ...

Hadar’s “The Devash Jr. Book of Shemot” sends a powerful message: Our children are full members of this tradition, and their ...

Literary critic Frank Kermode, in his 1996 work, “The Sense of an Ending,” reminds us that we must often re-evaluate an entire text in light of its conclusion. With that in mind, let us examine the ...

ROME An Italian expert in Hebrew manuscripts said Wednesday he had discovered the oldest known complete Torah scroll, a sheepskin document dating from 1155-1225. It was right under his nose, in the ...

ROME – An Italian expert in Hebrew manuscripts said Wednesday he had discovered the oldest known complete Torah scroll, a sheepskin document dating from 1155-1225. It was right under his nose, in the ...

Scroll was discovered in the archives of the University of Bologna. ROME May 29, 2013— -- An Italian professor believes he has found the world's oldest and most complete torah scroll safely ...

A team of academics is aiming to correct centuries-old errors in the Hebrew Bible, but some are questioning the wisdom of their endeavor. LOS ANGELES (JTA ...

For as long as I can remember, the sound of Torah reading has carried something timeless. Whether it was a weekday minyan or a crowded Shabbat morning, those ancient melodies always connected me to ...

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and all the creatures within them. Before long, some of those inhabitants wrote down the way they understood their beginnings, and soon other ...

I am responding in this series to frequently asked questions about some gender-bending translations of Torah texts I have proposed in a few articles since 2008, and in an Op-Ed in The New York Times, ...