Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 25—TRAVERSE CITY — Something remarkable, even "miraculous," happened in the shadow of World War II that eventually reached ...

Firefighter Michael Farca braved heavy smoke and flames to rescue a Torah scroll from the burning Chabad of Greenvale synagogue, located in the basement of a multi-tenant building on Northern Blvd., ...

As Holocaust survivor Sidney Schenk entered the sanctuary of the newly established Beth Am synagogue, he carried in his arms a fellow Holocaust survivor: the Torah scroll of Roudnice nad Labem, a ...

(RNS) — A few years ago, the Conservative congregation of 900 families overlooking Lake Michigan took on a challenge. This past year 210 laypeople stepped up. HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (RNS) — Growing up in ...

A synagogue in the northern English city of Bradford has given away its Torah scrolls as it prepares to shutter due to dwindling numbers. One of the five scrolls that used to belong to the Orthodox ...

In response to the growing prevalence of hateful rhetoric nationally, a synagogue in Davie joyously paraded a new community Torah scroll to its new home. The streets of Davie — once notorious for Klan ...

They took the scroll to a new fellow Reform congregation called Shir Hadash (“new song”) in Valencia, Spain. Valencia was the site of a massacre of Jews — and Torah scrolls — on July 9, 1391. Torah ...

ORO VALLEY, Arizona (KGUN) — For the Jewish community, a Torah serves as an instruction manual for navigating their faith and interpersonal relationships. Now, a nearly 200-year-old version, once at ...

While the Nazis stormed through the Czech Republic in World War II, they collected thousands of Jewish artifacts to create a “museum of an extinct race.” However, historians believe it was actually ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Synagogue in Palm Beach will mark a new partnership with American Friends of the Israel Defense Forces during Shabbat services ...

Temple Beth El members Linda Hutt, Nadav Sofian and Becky Rhoads have an extra incentive to stand before their congregation and read from a 25-pound religious artifact during the upcoming Jewish ...