Every synagogue has its own Torah scrolls. Each one is hand-written in Hebrew just like the original. There are 304805 letters in a Torah scroll and each page has 42 lines. We believe Moses wrote ...

PRAGUE (JTA) — A new Torah scroll is being used in this historic city by one of its two Reform Jewish congregations to welcome the High Holidays and the series of solemn and joyous celebrations ...

The Holocaust Torah is on what the Memorial Scrolls Trust calls a "permanent loan." That means it will remain at Temple Or ...

The ritualized, singsong reading from Torah scrolls called cantillation, learned by Jewish boys (and girls) when they come of age, is a part of services on Shabbat and holidays, with truncated ...

She chanted the Scroll of Esther, known as the Megillah ... “Instead of a traditional Torah reading service or women’s tefillah [prayer] service or a partnership minyan service, we’ve ...

Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son, Henry, returned to Damascus for the first time since the 1990s when they fled Syria. They ...