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 ...
As Holocaust survivor Sidney Schenk entered the sanctuary of the newly established Beth Am synagogue, he carried in his arms a fellow Holocaust survivor: the Torah scroll of Roudnice nad Labem, a ...
Things don’t just disappear, I thought to myself, when I learned in 2010 that the Torah my grandmother carried out of war-ravaged Poland wasn’t in the Great Synagogue of Jerusalem, where it was ...
Aug. 25—TRAVERSE CITY — Something remarkable, even "miraculous," happened in the shadow of World War II that eventually reached the historic Beth Shalom Synagogue of Traverse City. After the downfall ...
They took the scroll to a new fellow Reform congregation called Shir Hadash (“new song”) in Valencia, Spain. Valencia was the site of a massacre of Jews — and Torah scrolls — on July 9, 1391. Torah ...
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND – Displaying his congregation’s new Torah scroll, Rabbi Mendy Goldshmid takes great care to move it with reverence, to ease it open delicately, to keep it safe and secure. He points ...
GREAT BARRINGTON — Rabbi Neil Hirsch opens a centuries-old Torah scroll that was seized by the Nazis. The sacred document now lives here, at Hevreh of Southern Berkshire. Though it is estimated to be ...
When Gavriel Kedem became a bar mitzvah, he was focused on the usual things: chanting the parsha, giving his dvar, the people watching. He wasn’t thinking about it as a historic moment. But it was — ...
A fire tore through a commercial building on Northern Boulevard in Greenvale Wednesday morning. More than 60 firefighters battled the thick smoke, but as they made their way to the basement, something ...
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