(JTA) — More than 20 years after the theft of ancient Torah scrolls from a Samaritan synagogue in Nablus, the Israel Antiquities Authority retrieved one page from the missing objects and invited ...
Editor’s note: A previous version of this article contained a reference to a report in the mainstream media in Turkey about the seizure of an ancient Torah scroll in the city of Samsun.
A delegation of Syrian Jewish businessmen will be returning a Torah Scroll to Syria, which was previously salvaged from the country, according to a Jewish News report on Monday, citing Moti Kahana ...
A Torah scroll that was written and dedicated to a synagogue that will be built on the Temple Mount was brought for safekeeping at the Karlin Yeshiva in the haredi city of Modi'in Illit.
The object comes encased in a weatherproof holy ark that has shoulder straps and can function as a podium on which to read scripture.
Researchers at the University of Kentucky have used a new digital reconstruction technique to resurrect one of the earliest known versions of the Old Testament from a Hebrew scroll that was burned ...
Every synagogue has its own Torah scrolls. Each one is hand-written in ... of the Torah can be presented to children as examples of ancient wise advice: Do not lie. Honour your parents.
the senators offered silent prayers beside the ancient stones of the Wall, toured the tunnels, and were deeply moved to ...