This Torah breastplate was dedicated to a Holocaust family. Can you shed some light on its background? The town was Krosno, Poland, my father’s birthplace. I have been involved in the field of ...

Story reporting on Temple Beth Kodesh — a Conservative synagogue in Boynton Beach — working to replace the cover and breastplate of its Holocaust Torah now that they are more aware of the ...

The breastplate on the Nussbaum scroll is made of silver and gold and was forged by the Possin Silversmith foundary of mid-19 th century Germany. The finials are late 19 th century German.

The Torah specifically mentions that the breastplate/choshen should not be allowed to slide away from that apron/ephod. The commentators to Torah discuss the significance of this rule.

Chief Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin, of the Central Synagogue of Moscow, presented to a visiting American rabbi a gift of a 200-year old silver breastplate for the Torah Scroll in the museum of the ...