Darius is the Founder and Executive Director of the National Black Empowerment Council ( NBEC ), a membership organization ...

At the time, the congregation was meeting at a Baptist church in West Los Angeles, and storing its Torah scroll on a table ...

The Torah scrolls are entirely handwritten in Hebrew by a sofer (scribe) on parchment from a kosher animal. This is usually a cow. It can take up to 18 months to complete the whole process from ...

In the Torah scroll, this portion is scribed in lyrical/poetic form, rather than prose. Although the term shira, song, here refers specifically to the portion of Haazinu, the Talmud tells us that ...

By the time the Nazi Party’s systematic murder of Jewish people in Europe ended in 1945, the global Jewish population had ...

Our Torah portion begins with the story of Jethro [a priest of Midian], father-in-law of Moses, who, after hearing about the splitting of the Red Sea and the war against Amalek, decided to join ...

Nine years ago, when his oldest grandchildren were 6 and 8, Joseph took out the Torah and decided he was ready to tell the story once more. As he says all this today, there is noise in the background.