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The arrival this month of a new Torah scroll in Hudson was greeted with festivities and special letter-writing opportunities. The arrival this month of a new Torah scroll in Hudson was greeted ...
The Memorial Scrolls Trust celebrated a 60th anniversary on Sunday. It has lent some 1,400 scrolls, once confiscated by the Nazis in Europe, to communities in 25 countries.
Two Torah scrolls will be dedicated at the Western Wall for the success of the people of Israel. This includes a dedication to elevate the souls of the fallen, the well-being of soldiers, and ...
Sgt. Segev Schwartz, 20, fell in the battle at the IDF's Sufa outpost during the Hamas onslaught The post Torah scroll honoring soldier slain on Oct. 7 completed ahead of Memorial Day appeared ...
The Torah scroll project was initiated by Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, the parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, as part of a Week of Goodness effort led by the family to inspire acts ...
The Chabad of Downtown SRQ commissioned a scribe to write a holy scroll with feather and ink. The Torah took a year to complete and cost $70,000.
The procession continues west on Park Avenue. Images from a Torah scroll procession and event by Chabad of Glencoe on Aug. 28, 2022 in downtown Glencoe.
October 7 massacre spurs massive Torah scroll writing project Thousands of Israeli Jews, including President Isaac Herzog, fill in letters on parchment to commemorate the 1, 200 dead and raise ...
Writing a Torah scroll itself is a religious act. Out of 613 mitzvahs or commandments, the writing of a Torah is the 613th and last commandment.
A Torah scroll valued at more than $50,000 has been reunited with its owner following the arrest of the crook who stole it from a Queens yeshiva three months ago, prosecutors said Monday.
Yet, during Simchat Torah, one adult picked up a child and delightedly danced with him as though he were a Torah scroll. Simchat Torah represents renewals in endings—almost as though Jewish ...
Simchat Torah is about more than beginning to read the Torah all over again. It’s about the need to reexamine what we think we know, over and over again.