In Jewish tradition, a reader of the Torah uses a pointer called a yad, which means hand in Hebrew. A yad, typically made of wood or silver with a miniature hand at its tip, helps readers of the books ...

(JTA) — On a typical Friday, some 200 people show up for services at Temple De Hirsch Sinai, a Reform congregation in Seattle. But last week, there was no one in the pews as Rabbi Daniel Weiner ...

A ceremonial yad, or Torah pointer, is a traditional gift for a bar or bat mitzvah. But a new technological innovation aimed at helping children learn their Torah and Haftarah portions represents a ...

Jews first settled in the Polish town of Wieliczka during the fourteenth century, when they were granted the right to extract salt from the vast local mine. A Jewish population continued to live in ...

Do you find it challenging to find a meaningful present for a bar or bat mitzvah honoree? We’ve got you covered. Rather than a check or gift card in multiples of chai ($18), here are a few other ...

(RNS) — When Henry Fuchs acquired a Torah scroll from the Hungarian synagogue he belonged to as a child, it came with two conditions. First, that the scroll, painstakingly written in ink on parchment, ...

One by one, 72 Torah scrolls rescued from the Shoah were carried in slow procession through Temple Emanu-El’s social hall last Tuesday evening. This was the largest reunion ever — and the first in the ...

The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia is welcoming its 90th anniversary with its first major exhibition of Judaica, a retrospective for a ground-breaking Pueblo clay artist and a look ...