A newly completed Torah scroll was celebrated this week in Dnipro, often referred to as the “capital of Jewish Ukraine,” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tuesday evening was a night for celebration and a joyous welcome by the Chabad House of Tallahassee to its new Torah. Chabad House ...

A Torah scroll funded by the collection of bottles and cans for recycling was brought into Kfar HaRoeh Yeshiva yesterday. The project was led by the yeshiva students together with Rabbi Itay Zore'a, ...

A Torah scroll was dedicated this week at the Bnei Akiva Bar Kokhba branch in Yeruham in memory of the late Captain Itai Seif, a platoon commander in the Givati Brigade who was killed during fighting ...

A Brooklyn synagogue had to celebrate Simchat Torah without four of its holy scrolls, following a theft on Tuesday morning. But in a thankful reversal of fortune, the Torahs were returned to the ...

A nonprofit group that rescues and restores Torah scrolls has agreed that it will only describe the origins of a Torah if it is independently verifiable. In an agreement with state officials made ...

(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.

As their Torah scrolls were packed into black plastic garbage bags and carried out of the Jewish school, the students and adults continued to pray, many with tears in their eyes. The scrolls ...

Eat your heart out, Indiana Jones. Police in Turkey say they have seized a Torah scroll believed to date back at least 2,000 years — and have arrested five people suspected of illegally dealing in ...