When I was a kid growing up in New York City in the 1950s, Torah mantles, the cloth covering that protects the Torah, were blue velvet with gold trim. Occasionally, there was a lion, and there was ...
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 ...
Opinion: Hiding never satisfies the hateful. That's why Jews must stand tall, confident and holding fast to our traditions.
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 ...
From a World War II warehouse in Prague to Port St. Lucie, a torah scroll has found a new home at Temple Beth EI Israel. This scroll, which features the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, is one of ...
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 ...
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