The Boise Jewish community prepares for a new chapter as Rabbi Johanna Hershenson takes the helm, with restored Torah scrolls ...

Congregation Beth Am Israel in Penn Valley marked the start of its Torah, Ruach, Limmud Campaign with a Torah writing celebration weekend from April 3 to 6. The events included Torah writing sessions ...

Much like a muscle, faith weakens faster when it isn’t used – a concept that extends to the physical scripture itself, members of Chisuk Emuna were told Sunday. The Jewish congregation, located in ...

NEWBURYPORT — No ritual object is more central to Judaism than a Torah scroll. But even many fully observant Jews do not understand the intricacies of producing a Torah scroll that conforms to all the ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – The Chisuk Emuna synagogue in Harrisburg is receiving a new Torah, a rare occurrence that happens only once every few decades. Most of the local synagogue’s Torah scrolls are ...

(JNS) Why is this Torah different from all other Torahs? It may well be the fact that inside it is the pain of more than 1,000 Israelis whose lives have been forever changed by this war. When Nogah ...

Neil Yerman bends close to the parchment with a quill pen in his roughened hands, chanting softly in the natural light streaming through the windows of Temple Emanuel. Yerman repairs letters on a ...

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Rabbi Juan Mejia, at Oklahoma City's Emanuel Synagogue, works on a parchment scroll inscribed with The Megillah — the Book of Esther — that was created by Oklahoma-based The Kedusha Project. An ...

(AP) – JERUSALEM _ In a world overwhelmed by electronic gadgets that have changed the way we read, write and learn, the Jewish and Islamic arts of calligraphy have preserved their methods for ...

An Israeli community is observing the Jewish holiday of Purim with a sacred item made by a group of Oklahomans halfway across the globe. Rabbi Juan Mejia, of Oklahoma City, said he and other members ...