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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.
Shavuot: The Giving of the Torah
Four local rabbi discuss the holiday of Shavuot...
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 [...]
All the Torah news fit to print
The first issue of Torah Tidbits - the weekly "parsha pamphlet" produced for the Anglo community by the Orthodox Union's Jerusalem center - appeared in 1992 in two Jerusalem synagogues. It was a single piece of paper with a dvar Torah on one side and announcements on the other.
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.
‘Torah thief rabbi’ claim doesn’t have a prayer in court
BY LESLEY SUSSMAN | Testimony was concluded last week in a bitter three-year court case in which a Brooklyn rabbi who was once convicted of stealing a Torah from an Upstate synagogue and trying to fence it, now claims to be a member and assistant rabbi of an East Village orthodox synagogue — which the synagogue’s rabbi and congregation members strongly deny.
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