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

Three people have been arrested following a break-in at a synagogue in north London that left prayer items, including sacred ...

MADISON — A progressive Jewish congregation in Madison is poised to become the first in the city and perhaps one of only a dozen or so in the world to own a Torah scroll written by a female ...

Within the scroll of the Torah are the words Jews are commanded to live by. In a religion that has no established leader or institution to determine authority, the words themselves are the arbiters.

For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the heart of Syria's capital Damascus, carefully passing their thumbs over the ...

"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 ...

Torah scrolls are considered the holiest object in the Jewish religion, containing the text of the five books of Moses, otherwise known as the Old Testament.

There are rules for the layout - the number of lines of text per column, the number of columns - resulting in a scroll which will be more that 50 metres long.

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 ...

They then roll back the Torah scroll to the beginning and start over with Genesis 1:1, the story of Creation. ... As a sacred text, the Torah had to be distinguished from secular readings, ...

It's often accompanied by a parading of the Torah scrolls, the faith's most sacred and central text. But this year, many are wondering how to celebrate a day that, ...

Some 5,000 people marched several blocks on Park Avenue through Manhattan’s Upper East Side in what organizers say is the city’s largest-ever Torah dedication, which honored the victims of ...