At the centre of the shul (synagogue) is the holy ark. Over the front of the ark is a curtain. Open the curtains and there ...

A moving ceremony: In the presence of Israel’s Chief Rabbi, prominent rabbis, and family members, a Torah scroll was dedicated at Yeshivat Lev Chadash in Shiloh, where Binyamin studied — on ...

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and prominent rabbis participated in writing letters in a Torah scroll dedicated to the memory of Sergeant Segev Schwartz, who sacrificed himself to save dozens of ...

The President of Israel and prominent rabbis participated in writing letters in a Torah scroll dedicated to the memory of ...

Talia read the first four aliyot in Ashkenazi trope, from a standard Ashkenazi Torah scroll. For the fifth Aliyah, which would be her Bat Mitzvah Aliyah to the Torah, she switched to the Sephardic ...

Every synagogue has its own Torah scrolls. Each one is hand-written in Hebrew just like the original. There are 304805 letters in a Torah scroll and each page has 42 lines. We believe Moses wrote ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hundreds of women joined Women of the Wall for the group’s monthly Rosh Chodesh service at the Western Wall, which included a Torah scroll smuggled in to the women’s section.

A procession for the Torah - carried under a wedding canopy to Klezmer music played by a band led by violinist Prof. Daniel Kirschner (Biology) - was held in the University's Multi-Faith Worship Space ...

(JTA) — Chabad in the United Kingdom condemned the hosting in one of its movement’s synagogues of a religious ceremony honoring the donation of a Torah scroll by a convicted sex offender.

Over the front of the ark is a curtain. Open the curtains and there stands the Torah scroll, not nakedly revealing its flesh, its text, for all the world to see. No, the scroll is draped in a ...