Volunteers rushed to rescue three sacred Torah scrolls buried beneath the rubble of a destroyed synagogue after it burned down in upstate New York. Members of a volunteer safety patrol ran into the ...

Impressive ceremonies were arranged by the Jewish community of Kovel, Poland, on the eve of Rush Hashanah when the burial of a number of Holy Scrolls desecrated during the Balachovitch pogroms in 1920 ...

A ritual of Rosh Hashanah is the blowing of the shofar, a curved ram's horn, which symbolically stirs Jews to repentance.

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency) Tuesday, Jan. 3, the day coinciding with the Jewish religious fast Assarah B’Teveth, was observed in all the synagogues throughout the country in connection with the ...

Israel Police say it’s a Hanukkah miracle. Undercover police officers managed to locate a cache of ancient holy books that were stolen about a month ago from a synagogue in Rishon Lezion. On Wednesday ...

Tuesday evening was a night for celebration and a joyous welcome by the Chabad House of Tallahassee to its new Torah. Chabad House is a Jewish organization for FSU students and others where they may ...

The mission is a man.

I once visited a shul in a remote town in the United States. During the services, as was the custom, the rabbi, as he did on every Shabbat, gave his sermon on the weekly portion of the Torah. In his ...

Simchat Torah, which marks the end of the annual cycle of weekly Torah readings and the beginning of the new cycle, is a joyous holiday that celebrates the Jewish love of Torah and study. Marking the ...