Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tuesday evening was a night for celebration and a joyous welcome by the Chabad House of Tallahassee to its new Torah. Chabad House ...

Religion Behind the Scenes spotlights the crucial but less visible tasks that keep religious communities running, and the people who make it all happen. The most sacred object in Jewish life is the ...

(JTA) — Getting a “200-year-old lady” ready for a major debut is quite a task. But in Vienna, the Jewish community’s historic main synagogue made it just in time for the Jewish New Year. The “lady” — ...

How wonderful to read the numerous press stories featuring the residents of the Gaza border kibbutzim celebrating their first Shavuot together at home since October 7, 2023. Shavuot is the traditional ...

(RNS) — Jewish life was nearly extinguished by the Nazis. But because of a historical quirk, Czech Jewish liturgical objects, such as Torah scrolls, survived. Now, one such scroll has made it back.

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. By Milton Esterow Since the ...

Simchat Torah is forever changed since Oct. 7, 2023. This is the first year, since that terrible day, where we will be ...

Just as Jews devote themselves first and foremost to protecting human life, United Hatzalah also protects sacred objects when ...

Two Torah scrolls, one complete and one incomplete, were found in Poland’s Sokolow Podlaski district. The Torah scrolls found Aug. 20 are believed to have belonged to a synagogue in nearby Wegrow. A ...

Most tourists who make the pilgrimage to Masada have seen the ruins of the 2,000-year-old stone synagogue built by the Jewish Zealots who hid there from the Romans for four years before committing ...

Eat your heart out, Indiana Jones. Police in Turkey say they have seized a Torah scroll believed to date back at least 2,000 years — and have arrested five people suspected of illegally dealing in ...

Lights—red, blue, green, orange—flash in Gregory Heyworth's multispectral imaging lab in the University of Rochester's Rush Rhees Library, strategically tucked beside Rare Books, Special Collections, ...