Under a shared sky and with hearts wide open, families, students, and staff came together for the Siyum Sefer Torah of Bais ...

Despite snow and freezing temperatures, hundreds gathered to celebrate the hachnosas Sefer Torah of the first Sefer Torah for ...

Members of the Jacksonville Jewish community gathered Sunday afternoon to honor Rabbi Yaakov Fisch with one of Judaism’s most ...

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Just a few short weeks ago, on Shabbat, we read about Moshe: "He gazed, and there was a bush all aflame, yet the bush was not consumed.” (Parshat Shmot, Exodus, 3:2:) Moshe ponders how this is ...

The Long Island firefighter who saved a sacred Sefer Torah from a burning Chabad on Wednesday said he was no “super hero” and was just doing what he was trained to do. Firefighter Michael Farca, 54, ...

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David is new to shul and offered hagba (the raising of the Torah). It’s painful to watch. He can barely lift the Sefer Torah, almost drops it, and sits down very quickly. Feeling very embarrassed ...

An 800-year-old Jewish sage is coming to Westwood this week. One of the oldest biblical scrolls in the world, will be the center of a reception at Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel’s Levy Family ...

Torah Scribe Jamie Shear in the Old City of Jerusalem. Not a few rabbinical eyebrows were raised last week in Israel when Rabbi Menachem Perl, head of the Tzomet Institute for Technology and Halacha, ...

This analysis of a midrashic text is obviously not intended as a comment on or opinion about the recent United States Supreme Court decision. One of my favorite midrashim is in the Talmud in Tractate ...