Much like a muscle, faith weakens faster when it isn’t used – a concept that extends to the physical scripture itself, members of Chisuk Emuna were told Sunday. The Jewish congregation, located in ...

ORLANDO, Fla. - The Torah used at the Jewish Academy of Orlando is marked with water spots, smudges, discolorations, rips and the normal wear and tear that comes from regular use. "It's not just a ...

Sefaria is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the cultivation of Jewish learning. It has assembled a far-reaching library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation, ...

Neil Yerman bends close to the parchment with a quill pen in his roughened hands, chanting softly in the natural light streaming through the windows of Temple Emanuel. Yerman repairs letters on a ...

Julie Seltzer, who lives in Beacon, is a soferet, or Hebrew scribe.

MADISON — A progressive Jewish congregation in Madison is poised to become the first in the city and perhaps one of only a dozen or so in the world to own a Torah scroll written by a female scribe.

He found that he was thinking more deeply about the familiar stories and even dreaming about the passages he had penned that day.He became interested in writing a Torah — the scroll containing the ...

(JNS) Why is this Torah different from all other Torahs? It may well be the fact that inside it is the pain of more than 1,000 Israelis whose lives have been forever changed by this war. When Nogah ...