In 1985, a Jewish-American astronaut read from the Torah in space. Jeffrey Hoffman, the first Jewish-American man to go into space, consulted a rabbi on how to observe Judaism on his first trip ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Women of the Wall for the first time read from a full-size Torah scroll during the group’s monthly prayer service at the Western Wall, contravening regulations there.

The historical findings, discovered in the ancient city of Phanagoria, include an ark, a podium for reading the Torah, and seven-branched candlesticks. "The community adhered to all laws and ...

Please contact Liverpool University Press for availability about this product In this highly original study, David Gillis demonstrates that the Mishneh torah, Maimonides' code of Jewish law, has the ...

and fast days following the reading of the Torah portion in synagogues around the world) of Elisha and the Shunamite woman’s son offers powerful lessons about healing, miracles, and our ...

A small detail in the Jacob story in this week's Torah portion brings us an important piece of wisdom about patience and ...

(RNS) — Growing up in Argentina in an assimilated Jewish family, Jorge Singman never had a bar mitzvah, a rite of passage ...

Jewish girl Me-Me introduces us to the Bat Mitzvah ceremony as she prepares to become a ‘Daughter of the Law’, learning to pray and to read the Torah in public. Hannukkah, the festival of lights.