Most tourists who make the pilgrimage to Masada have seen the ruins of the 2,000-year-old stone synagogue built by the Jewish Zealots who hid there from the Romans for four years before committing ...

As Holocaust survivor Sidney Schenk entered the sanctuary of the newly established Beth Am synagogue, he carried in his arms a fellow Holocaust survivor: the Torah scroll of Roudnice nad Labem, a ...

Things don’t just disappear, I thought to myself, when I learned in 2010 that the Torah my grandmother carried out of war-ravaged Poland wasn’t in the Great Synagogue of Jerusalem, where it was ...

They took the scroll to a new fellow Reform congregation called Shir Hadash (“new song”) in Valencia, Spain. Valencia was the site of a massacre of Jews — and Torah scrolls — on July 9, 1391. Torah ...

When I was a kid growing up in New York City in the 1950s, Torah mantles, the cloth covering that protects the Torah, were blue velvet with gold trim. Occasionally, there was a lion, and there was ...

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND – Displaying his congregation’s new Torah scroll, Rabbi Mendy Goldshmid takes great care to move it with reverence, to ease it open delicately, to keep it safe and secure. He points ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Rabbi Neil Hirsch opens a centuries-old Torah scroll that was seized by the Nazis. The sacred document now lives here, at Hevreh of Southern Berkshire. Though it is estimated to be ...