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 ...

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 ...

This reading was his Bar Mitzvah Torah Portion 12 years ago, so he knows it well. He has read it many times, including every year at the Sephardic Educational Center’s beautiful Shavuot programs ...

Dozens of Sephardic Jews gathered Sunday to welcome to the United States an ancient scroll from the home of their ancestors, the Sefer Torah of the Greek island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea. The ...

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.

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.

The Torah scroll held by IDF Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren returned to the Western Wall this week with 75 others for the Jewish souls lost in last year's war.