A Torah hidden for decades is now being restored by Holocaust survivors. Local survivors gathered at the Holocaust Memorial ...

Cantor Jennifer Bern-Vogel was used to hearing her mother tell the story. On the evening of Nov. 9, 1938, her mother, then ...

The relic, one of only two items that survived, was kept by a young girl who escaped the Nazis on the Kindertransport; now it ...

On the evening of Nov. 9, 1938, her mother, then Marianne Katzenstein, who was 16 at the time, was in her family’s synagogue ...

But each influence, real person or somewhere in the ether, needs to be judged on its own merits if we are to maintain our ...

Amid tragedy, communities creatively honor Simchat Torah, blending celebration with remembrance to uphold tradition while ...

A replica of the Ark of the Covenant, painstakingly constructed, its creators say, to the Torah specifications of the sacred ...

Walk me like a palindrome forward to our common home, looking backwards at the past, thinking our love couldn’t last, though it’s lasted long enough for ...

Daniels explained that the condition of the Torah scroll was dire, as a family had used half of it over the past 70 years as rags and even as insoles for shoes. He received the Torah and rescued it.

Indian Americans continue to support the Democratic Party ahead of the United States presidential election, with 61% of the voters from the community saying that they plan to cast ballots in ...

Going back to Bruchin for Simchat Torah felt like ... The congregation first hears the final two chapters of Deuteronomy read from one Torah scroll and, after a brief pause, a second scroll ...

Customarily, Simchat Torah is one of the most joyous days of the Jewish calendar, highlighted by exuberant dancing around a ...