ENCINO, Calif., May 8 (JTA) — “See that aleph in ‘asher’ “? Gabe, 18, asks. He points to a piece of parchment that is securely taped to a drafting table and that contains the first seven verses of ...

A Sefer Torah's story that begins in the town of Eich near Worms, Germany, continues in New York, and becomes part of the ...

Keren Hachomesh invites you to join in the completion of the historic Torah commissioned for the Rebbe and Rebbetzin’s home ...

The Jewish Home for the Aging has never had a Torah it could call its own. Since the home first opened in 1912, synagogues or individuals have donated Siferei Torah to the senior-living community, but ...

The Jewish community of Chapman University had cause for celebration Sunday when the last of the 304,805 Hebrew letters were painstakingly inked onto a parchment scroll, marking the completion of the ...

(JTA) — When the pandemic kept Rabbi Emily Meyer stuck at home last year, she took up a hobby familiar to any elementary school student — doodling. But Meyer, a Jewish educator in the Pittsburgh area, ...

In a first for Germany, and perhaps the world, a Muslim wrote one of the Hebrew letters in a new Torah scroll. On November 29, the small Jewish community of Marburg, Germany, celebrated the completion ...

Are You A Kosher Letter? Every Jew is a letter in the Torah; the question is, are you a kosher letter? The Torah tells us that 603,550 Jews came out of Egypt. Kabbalah proclaimed that there are six ...

told a small gathering at the Jewish Association for Residential Care auditorium last Tuesday. “It takes a whole year to write a Torah scroll and every letter is special, every letter is precious,” ...

Even though Erma Lipschultz has revered the Torah for as long as she can remember, nothing in her 92 years prepared her for the moment she helped create one. One Hebrew letter is all she wrote – one ...