Secularism alone denies Israel’s Jewish roots and raison d’être. Tradition alone can produce dangerously fanatical and ...

At the centre of the shul (synagogue) is the holy ark. Over the front of the ark is a curtain. Open the curtains and there ...

Jarvis began by recounting the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940s by Bedouin shepherds near the ancient settlement of Qumran, located about 13 miles from Ein Gedi. Though only 11 caves ...

Every synagogue has its own Torah scrolls. Each one is hand-written in Hebrew just like the original. There are 304805 letters in a Torah scroll and each page has 42 lines. We believe Moses wrote ...

As Israel celebrates Independence Day on May 14, let me tell you a story of an event 30 years prior to its establishment in 1948. The Associated Press correspondent in Palestine titled the story ...

The President of Israel and prominent rabbis participated in writing letters in a Torah scroll dedicated to the memory of ...

Over the front of the ark is a curtain. Open the curtains and there stands the Torah scroll, not nakedly revealing its flesh, its text, for all the world to see. No, the scroll is draped in a ...

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To Daniel Aghion, a burnt Torah scroll represents more than just a ruined object. "It's a symbol of survival," the president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry said. As he digested the ...