My son was provided the honor of reading from the Torah, the ancient scroll that holds our faith’s most sacred texts, at his friend’s b’nai mitzvah. However, this Torah was unlike many ...

Echoes of that story resonate in this Torah portion as Isaac, Rebecca, Esau, and Jacob engage in a painful choreography that ends in tragedy. There are two sons and, at least in the beginning ...

We wondered if this always happened with such divine coordination. Torah scroll is raised and displayed at Western Wall (credit: REUTERS/AMIR COHEN) Little did I know about the history of hakafot ...

Other students at the Jewish school nearby described a mountain of prayer books and Torah scrolls lying in the dirt on the street, desecrated and set aflame. It was 1938, five years after Adolf ...

Questions about how to represent German Jews, past and present, have complicated plans to rebuild the destroyed temple.

A sacred religious item was returned unharmed after being taken from its place in a Northwestern Michigan College dorm.

(Photo courtesy Arizona Jewish Historical Society) A commemorative service in Phoenix on Sunday, Feb. 25, included Torah scrolls from two Tucson congregations. Both are Czech Memorial Scrolls that ...

The Torah begins with the grand, expansive story of creation—of the world and of humanity. But in Parshat Lech Lecha, the focus narrows to one central figure: our Patriarch, Abraham. It is here ...