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On Rosh Hashanah, more than 1,000 Iranian Jews at Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills cheered the unveiling of a new hand-carved Mahogany wood hechal (Torah ark), which was recently completed after a ...

Repairing a Torah — the Jewish sacred scroll containing divine teachings — is no small feat. Simply reading passages from the text requires a ritual. The scroll is housed in an “ark,” an ornate ...

The most striking artifact in the Judaica collection at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts isn’t from Yemen or Galicia, or any other far-flung Jewish community that’s long since dispersed; it’s from Chelsea ...

MILFORD — The Chabad House Jewish Center unveiled its new Torah ark during a dedication ceremony on Sept. 11 of the “Community Shul" — its synagogue — which also commemorated 9/11 heroes and the fight ...

The Forest Hills Jewish Center is searching for a new home for its monumental ark -- the chamber that holds its Torah scrolls -- as it prepares to move to smaller quarters. J.C.Rice They don’t want it ...

A Torah ark that was created for Holocaust survivors in Germany after World War II, then traveled to a synagogue and Jewish museum in Brooklyn, will go on auction here next week. Where will the arc of ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Congregation Ner Tamid in Henderson’s new Torah took its place in the synagogue’s ark Sunday. The new Torah took about a year to complete. It was written in Israel with some ...