The San Antonio Chabad Lubavitch community’s Orthodox synagogue on the North Side has acquired what’s believed to be the first-ever permanent Sephardic Torah scroll in the city. The holy ...

A collection of Torah scrolls and maps was donated to San Diego State University by a private donor. The collection includes more than 70 Torah scrolls and Torah fragments that are hundreds of ...

The Sephardic Torah scroll did not make the cut. The two remaining images are pretty traditional. One depicts a Torah scroll open to roughly the middle, the other a closed scroll wrapped in a blue ...

Galileo continued writing in conversational language for his landmark 1632 work, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del ...

We all heard a Sephardic young lady born and raised in the United States, skillfully reading with great pride from an ancient Sephardic-case Torah scroll, in the tune of the Sephardic Ta’amim of ...

In 1725, Abraham Lopes de Oliveyra was officially registered as a silversmith in London — the first Jew known to be given a license to practice the trade in the city.

A pioneering 18th-century Sephardic silversmith’s Torah decorations to be displayed in US museums for first ... and sit on top of the two wooden staves of a Torah scroll when it is not being read.