Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Rabbi Levitin retrieves Torah scroll Sunday from fire-damaged house. Less than three days before a ...

(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.

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 ...

When Beth Shalom Synagogue resumed in-person services June 12, those who attended had extra cause for celebration — two of the synagogue’s Torah scrolls had returned as well. The scrolls, each older ...

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 ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Firefighters managed to save every Torah scroll from a fire that broke out at a synagogue in southwest Houston, three days before the start of Hanukkah. About 30 worshipers ...

Old York Road Temple-Beth Am will display and rededicate its three Torah scrolls salvaged from Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust on June 3, coinciding with the Abington synagogue’s 75th-year jubilee ...

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The Torah scroll had not been seen since Kristallnacht, the pogrom against synagogues and Jewish property in German-speaking lands on Nov. 9 and 10, 1938. BERLIN (JTA) — A German Protestant minister ...

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 ...