The last mitzvah commanded by the Torah is to participate in the writing of a Torah scroll. In this spirit, a new Torah scroll was commissioned for the Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School, the first ...

Just a few short weeks ago, on Shabbat, we read about Moshe: "He gazed, and there was a bush all aflame, yet the bush was not consumed.” (Parshat Shmot, Exodus, 3:2:) Moshe ponders how this is ...

An 800-year-old Jewish sage is coming to Westwood this week. One of the oldest biblical scrolls in the world, will be the center of a reception at Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel’s Levy Family ...

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This Rosh Hashanah at Congregation Netivot Shalom in Teaneck, NJ, one of the sifrei Torah (Torah scrolls) we read from was new to our community, a repaired sefer Torah. As the sofer (scribe), Rabbi ...

Torahs are supposed to be read and not memorized, which a Braille Torah makes possible for blind and visually impaired Jews. PITTSBURGH — Rabbi Lenny Sarko had a problem that was threatening to derail ...

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Torah Scribe Jamie Shear in the Old City of Jerusalem. Not a few rabbinical eyebrows were raised last week in Israel when Rabbi Menachem Perl, head of the Tzomet Institute for Technology and Halacha, ...

The Crown Heights community gathered for a moving and joyous Hachnasas Sefer Torah at Friendship Circle of Brooklyn’s Center, ...

The Long Island firefighter who saved a sacred Sefer Torah from a burning Chabad on Wednesday said he was no “super hero” and was just doing what he was trained to do. Firefighter Michael Farca, 54, ...