This story was first published by FāVS News on Feb. 23, 2026. Jewish Boiseans gathered with the broader community this weekend to celebrate the formal installation of a new rabbi and the restoration ...

The Boise Jewish community prepares for a new chapter as Rabbi Johanna Hershenson takes the helm, with restored Torah scrolls ...

(RNS) — Jewish life was nearly extinguished by the Nazis. But because of a historical quirk, Czech Jewish liturgical objects, such as Torah scrolls, survived. Now, one such scroll has made it back.

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For the first time in at least 17 years, Bellingham’s Orthodox Jewish community celebrated the completion of a new Torah Scroll. The Torah is considered the word of God so completing it on a scroll ...

As their Torah scrolls were packed into black plastic garbage bags and carried out of the Jewish school, the students and adults continued to pray, many with tears in their eyes. The scrolls ...

Neil Yerman bends close to the parchment with a quill pen in his roughened hands, chanting softly in the natural light streaming through the windows of Temple Emanuel. Yerman repairs letters on a ...

The Boise Jewish community prepares for a new chapter as Rabbi Johanna Hershenson takes the helm, with restored Torah scrolls ready for service.

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If your Torah scroll has cracked or faded letters, who you gonna call? A sofer. This Jewish craftsperson is trained in the art of copying holy texts. Thus, Rabbi Samuel Spector of Congregation Kol Ami ...

Old York Road Temple-Beth Am will display and rededicate its three Torah scrolls salvaged from Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust on June 3, coinciding with the Abington synagogue’s 75th-year jubilee ...

Beginning in the late 1970s, a series of clandestine operations brought thousands of Ethiopian Jews home to Israel and led to the establishment of a proud, flourishing community known as Beta Israel.