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

A Tucson congregation’s 250-year-old Torah scroll was visited by a Jewish scribe this week for restoration. The congregation received Sefer Torah #531 from the Memorial Scrolls Trust of London ...

President and Dean Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz joyfully announced that his global center for learning and action had just ...

A brick from 770 Eastern Parkway was given to the donor of two Torah scrolls at Chabad of the Solomon Hills in the Pokrovsky ...

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

The Chabad of Downtown SRQ commissioned a scribe to write a holy scroll with feather and ink. The Torah took a year to complete and cost $70,000.

Seeing him up there – tall, proud and reading so beautifully – brought me back to his Bar Mitzvah, when a little Ilan was physically unable to carry the heavy Sephardic Torah scrolls at Kahal ...

The scroll was donated anonymously; the center’s Beth Alpert Nakhai, Ph.D., acquired it in 2009. The scroll is thought to be nearly 200 years old, originally used by a European Sephardic Jewish ...

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 ...

“The Gonif” By Andy Weinberger (Prospect Park Books; 238 pages) A new installment of the Amos Parisman mysteries is out. In this book, L.A.’s “oldest and most unconventional Jewish gumshoe” Parisman ...

Mordecai Shalev, Second Secretary of the Israel Embassy in Washington, came to Montgomery to present the scroll on behalf of Israel.

We received our Prague Torah scroll in 1971 after an extensive application process. Others were sent to synagogues around the world." Creating a new Torah scroll is both time-consuming and expensive.