This week, students from the Mosdos Chinuch of Los Angeles, Cheder Menachem, and Bais Chaya Mushka Los Angeles respectively had a rare and powerful experience: participating in the final writing of a ...

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 ...

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, ...

As preparations for the gala Hachnasas Sefer Torah (dedication of a Torah scroll) to Yeshivas Beis Dovid in Jerusalem reach their climax, the Yeshiva's dean, Rabbi Avraham Weisenfeld, principals Rabbi ...

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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David is new to shul and offered hagba (the raising of the Torah). It’s painful to watch. He can barely lift the Sefer Torah, almost drops it, and sits down very quickly. Feeling very embarrassed ...

Synagogue of the Summit (SOS) welcomes the first specially handwritten copy of the Torah to Summit County today at 7 p.m. at the Summit County Community and Senior Center near Frisco. The Torah is ...

Akụkọ na-ekwu na a tọhapụla Noam Leibman, Rudy Rochman na Edouard David Benaym bụ ndị mba Israel na-eme ihe onyonyo a nwụchiri na Naijirịa, mana nwaanyị Naijirịa bụ Lisbon Agha a nwụchịrị ya na ndị a ...

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, ...