Volunteers rushed to rescue three sacred Torah scrolls buried beneath the rubble of a destroyed synagogue after it burned down in upstate New York. Members of a volunteer safety patrol ran into the ...

A torah scroll was damaged when vandals poured laundry detergent on the religious text at a George Washington University fraternity house. “There was a Christian Bible and a Jewish Torah in the room, ...

Torah scroll torn apart and covered with detergent by antisemitic vandals who broke into a fraternity house with Jewish members at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC. Antisemitic ...

Scroll was discovered in the archives of the University of Bologna. ROME May 29, 2013— -- An Italian professor believes he has found the world's oldest and most complete torah scroll safely ...

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 ...

(RNS) — Jewish life was nearly extinguished by the Nazis. But because of a historical quirk, Czech Jewish liturgical objects, such as Torah scrolls, survived. Now, one such scroll has made it back.

After a fire devastated the building for Chabad of Tallahassee last year, the Jewish community is coming together in its rebuilding effort. Chabad Lubavitch of the Panhandle and FSU will be having a ...

“Justice, justice you shall pursue that you may live and inherit the land which the Lord has given you.” (Deuteronomy 16:20) So read the words chosen by Rabbi Joe Mendelsohn of the Reform Temple of ...

(JTA) Eastern Washington is a region that, for the last half a century, was far better known for its hate groups than its Jewish community. Spokane and the surrounding area was infamously a hotbed of ...

“I used to feel like I wasn’t Jewish when I was here, but that’s completely changed,” said one of the Jesuit school’s roughly 60 Jewish students. SEATTLE (JTA) — Eastern Washington is a region that, ...