Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman honored a volunteer firefighter Wednesday, June 25, for rescuing a sacred Torah scroll ...

A torah scroll was damaged when vandals poured laundry detergent on the religious text at a George Washington University fraternity house. “There was a Christian Bible and a Jewish Torah in the ...

The Torah does not fear that a copy will yield less authenticity; it mandates those copies. For it is not the text itself that yields authenticity, it is how the words are lived.

To scholars’ astonishment, the newly divulged text is exactly the same, in both letters and format, as text in modern Torah scrolls read by most Jews now. The burnt manuscript dates to the 3rd ...

October 7 massacre spurs massive Torah scroll writing project ... Each of the 304,805 letters that make up the text is meant to be written or filled in by Jewish people from across Israel and the ...

A Torah scroll contains the text of the Five Books of Moses, which have been painstakingly copied and transferred in the original Hebrew by scribes for centuries. Great care is invested in ...

Utah's largest Jewish synagogue, Congregation Kol Ami, is hosting a "sofer," a scribe who can repair their Torah scroll — its sacred text.

"Book" refers to the Pentateuch, which is the text written in the Torah scroll. The Torah scroll dedication ceremony was held with great joy and attended by many people, including the Bouchris ...

Inside, all furnishings, the shul (school), and particularly, two precious Torah scrolls — the central text in Judaism, containing the five books of Moses in Hebrew — were incinerated.

Even for a text as familiar as the Bible, an entire lifetime of reading the Torah week after week, year after year cannot begin to yield all the possible ... Wiesel, himself born on Simchat Torah in ...

Rabbi Simcha Weissman added: "A Torah scroll is written in black fire on white fire. The white fire symbolizes the broad spirit beyond the written text – and Kfir was the white fire. A young man ...