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Rabbi Akiva’s gift to a ghost

“You shall teach your children diligently” (Deuteronomy 6:7). Rabbi Akiba traveled from town to town in Israel, teaching the Torah, judging cases, settling disputes, offering wisdom and listening to the stories of his people.

Shavuot – Torah for everyone

My daughter, Dina, accepted a summer job here in Los Angeles last year. Before being hired, she explained that she was an observant Jew who would have to take off two days in early June to celebrate the holiday of Shavuot.

For Shavuot, Bay Area Jews head to the wilderness

Most Jews around the world observe Shavuot in the relative comfort of their synagogues and homes. Not so for Wilderness Torah, a Berkeley-based nonprofit.

The Torah of our lives: On writing the next chapter

“Boomers [people born between 1946 and 1964] are the first generation in human history … to reasonably anticipate living well and wholesomely into their 80s and 90s, if not beyond,” sociologist Steven Cohen writes.

Shavuot: The Giving of the Torah

Four local rabbi discuss the holiday of Shavuot...

Opinion: If Passover is the question, Shavuot is the answer

Unlike other Jewish holidays, the Torah does not specify a date for Shavuot; it is celebrated on the 50th day (seven weeks) after Passover.

Italy’s Torah Day limited to men

Yom HaTorah in Italy, a day devoted to group study of the Torah in 13 Jewish communities across the country, excluded women, critics complained.

Torah rescued from Nazis on permanent loan to North Fork synagogue

A piece of Holocaust history resides in Cutchogue, but it’s far more than just a piece of the past. A mid-19th-century Torah from Tabor, in what is now the Czech Republic, is on “permanent loan” to North Fork Reform Synagogue in Cut­chogue — and the honor of caring for the priceless artifact is not on [...]

Boys find Torah scrolls in abandoned house

TZFAT, Israel, May 14 (UPI) -- Six Torah scrolls that had been stolen from a synagogue in Israel were found in an abandoned house by four boys, officials said.

Torah scrolls opened for cleaning at Adath Yeshurun Synagogue of Aiken

A master scribe was hired to repair 100-year-old Torah scrolls at an Aiken synagogue.


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