This Torah is more than 100 years old and probably originated in Germany. Old Torahs need to be repaired from time to time. Selwin, a scribe, or Sofer, from Miami, travels across the country to ...

There has never been a time or a place in the nearly 4,000 years of Jewish history in which those who studied Torah were exempt from military service because “Torah study is their craft”.

This article was reported in partnership with Type Investigations. One of the many attractions at the $500 million, 430,000-square-foot Museum of the Bible (MOTB) in Washington, D.C. is a gray ...

Simchat Torah takes place on the last day of Sukkot; this year it starts on the evening of October 17. ... He started learning the art and craft of crepes at the age of 9, ...

Jewish mystical texts say studying the Torah is a way of studying God’s mind. Some say a "renaissance" for a broadened Jewish interest in study is underway.

The “Mimosas & Masterpieces” event, scheduled for Sunday, July 20, at 11:00 a.m. at Chabad of Coral Springs, located at 3925 ...

On Simchat Torah, the scrolls that contain this literature are removed from the ark, the special place where they are kept at the front of the synagogue.While one or two scrolls are taken out during ...

Levi Selwin uses a quill pen and special black ink made in Israel to repair the Hebrew letters on this Torah at the Herzl-Ner Tamid synagogue on Mercer Island on March 21. This Torah is more than ...