Torah scroll

In Holland, a Torah scroll returns to Jewish hands 80 years after it was hidden from the Nazis

The artifact was thought to have been lost along with the community that had used it.

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 19, 2021 12:46 pm

Iceland welcomes its first permanent Torah scroll

Its inscription was finished at the home of the U.S. ambassador to Iceland, Jeffrey Ross Gunter, who is Jewish.

February 17, 2020 4:14 pm

Local Christian groups gift Torah scroll to central German Jewish community of Thuringia

The groups joined with the Jewish community to propose a yearlong celebration of Thuringia’s 900-year Jewish heritage, which will begin in October 2020.

October 23, 2019 7:24 am

Yaakov Dov Bleich carrying a Torah scroll into the synagogue of Drohobycz, Ukraine on July 3, 2019. (Rephael Isaak Vilenskiy)

Ukraine synagogue where Menachem Begin was married gets Torah scroll

By Cnaan Liphshiz July 5, 2019 8:22 am

Chabad of Poway dedicates new Torah scroll to honor shooting victim Lori Gilbert-Kaye

By Marcy Oster May 23, 2019 3:27 pm

Man arrested for stealing Torah scroll from Louisville hospital

October 17, 2018 11:35 am

Restored fragment of prewar Torah scroll goes on display at site of Kielce pogrom in Poland

October 8, 2018 6:35 am

Samaritans view part of ancient Torah scroll stolen from them in 1995

September 28, 2018 8:15 am

Ancient Torah scroll is safe after fire engulfs an iconic museum in Brazil

By Marcus M. Gilban September 4, 2018 12:11 pm

US aircraft carrier gets a Torah scroll

November 29, 2017 3:34 pm

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