(JTA) — More than 20 years after the theft of ancient Torah scrolls from a Samaritan ... “Sadness for what happened to the rest of the scroll, whose parts are now scattered across the globe ...

A late 15th century Torah scroll gifted to Trinity International ... to the Master’s Seminary in California. “It has been a part of who we are as a family,” said Larson, who credited a ...

The weekly portion or Sedrah is followed by the recitation of part of another of the Jewish holy writings. The Torah scrolls are entirely handwritten in Hebrew by a sofer (scribe) on parchment ...

the Torah scroll they had planned to use in their service was not allowed in. The group’s insistence on holding public Torah readings led by women is part of what has led to conflict over its ...

But it was — Gavriel was chanting from a scroll written by his mother, Shoshana Gugenheim Kedem, the first woman ever to be commissioned as a Torah scribe ... think for our kids it is normal ...

“The reason we fill out the final letter at the ceremony is to be part of the very last commandment in the Torah, which is to write a Torah scroll,” said Pekar. “The Torah dedication ...

There, the mother of four proudly watched her 13-year-old daughter stand at the platform, carefully reciting Hebrew from a hand-written Torah scroll during ... here to be a part of our community ...

Jews chant from and dance with Torah scrolls to mark the completion of the weekly public Torah-reading cycle, as part of an annual holiday called Simchat Torah. It celebrates the religion’s commitment ...

some experts believe that scrolls unearthed there featuring only parts of the biblical text might have actually contained the whole Torah. Our study could force us to reconsider assumptions about ...