Congregation Beth Am Israel in Penn Valley marked the start of its Torah, Ruach, Limmud Campaign with a Torah writing celebration weekend from April 3 to 6. The events included Torah writing sessions ...

Sefaria is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the cultivation of Jewish learning. It has assembled a far-reaching library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation, ...

A family joins others at the Milken Community High School to ink in a letter of a Torah scroll that was recovered from the Holocaust, remembering Shavuot, when the Torah first was given to the Jewish ...

the whole Bible (Old Testament) or even the whole body of the Jewish teaching, written and oral. After the opening words, Miller described the process of writing the Torah. A parchment made from ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Writing Torah is normally reserved for Orthodox Jewish men, but a woman is changing that tradition in a modern twist on ancient Hebrew text. With the start of the Jewish New ...

Much like a muscle, faith weakens faster when it isn’t used – a concept that extends to the physical scripture itself, members of Chisuk Emuna were told Sunday. The Jewish congregation, located in ...

A Torah scroll written collaboratively by six women was completed in Seattle, marking a first for a group of female scribes, or sofrot. SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — It took seven years to write and just a ...

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In honor of its 150 th anniversary, Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, New York, commissioned the city’s first Torah written by a female scribe. Traditionally penned (or quilled, to be more precise ...

A robot arm in the Berlin Jewish Museum is hard at work, carefully inking thousands of Hebrew letters on an 80-meter (260-foot) scroll. In about three months, it will have transcribed the entire Torah ...