Next, Yerman will bind the scroll to a new set of “atzei chaim,” the wooden spindles that are called trees of life. “The Torah is holy,” Yerman tell us this night. “Writing in the Torah ...
His writing is very different to mine ... Charlie introduces the work of Marc Michaels, a scribe, who writes Torah scrolls by hand, showing how these holy words are respected and preserved ...
A new installment of the Amos Parisman mysteries is out. In this book, L.A.’s “oldest and most unconventional Jewish gumshoe” Parisman has to track down the fate of a historic Torah scroll that’s been ...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A Torah scroll that disappeared from a Dutch synagogue following the Nazi invasion into the Netherlands has been rediscovered 80 years later and returned to the Jewish community.