The last mitzvah commanded by the Torah is to participate in the writing of a Torah scroll. In this spirit, a new Torah scroll was commissioned for the Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School, the first ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Congregation Beth Judea, Long Grove, is honored to be receiving a new Sefer Torah, commissioned in Israel, donated to the synagogue by Jan Charman in honor of his recently deceased wife Estelle. It ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighter Michael Farca holding a Torah scroll salvaged from a fire. The Long Island firefighter who saved a sacred Sefer Torah ...

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