Sefaria is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the cultivation of Jewish learning. It has assembled a far-reaching library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation, ...

A family joins others at the Milken Community High School to ink in a letter of a Torah scroll that was recovered from the Holocaust, remembering Shavuot, when the Torah first was given to the Jewish ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Writing Torah is normally reserved for Orthodox Jewish men, but a woman is changing that tradition in a modern twist on ancient Hebrew text. With the start of the Jewish New ...

the whole Bible (Old Testament) or even the whole body of the Jewish teaching, written and oral. After the opening words, Miller described the process of writing the Torah. A parchment made from ...

In honor of its 150 th anniversary, Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, New York, commissioned the city’s first Torah written by a female scribe. Traditionally penned (or quilled, to be more precise ...

Much like a muscle, faith weakens faster when it isn’t used – a concept that extends to the physical scripture itself, members of Chisuk Emuna were told Sunday. The Jewish congregation, located in ...

Menachem Mendel Korf, 8, was an integral part of the creation of a holy, sacred document. He wrote the Hebrew letter mem in the word “vayomer,” Hebrew for “and he said,” in the third line of a new ...

A robot arm in the Berlin Jewish Museum is hard at work, carefully inking thousands of Hebrew letters on an 80-meter (260-foot) scroll. In about three months, it will have transcribed the entire Torah ...

This week, students from the Mosdos Chinuch of Los Angeles, Cheder Menachem, and Bais Chaya Mushka Los Angeles respectively had a rare and powerful experience: participating in the final writing of a ...

A robot started writing a Torah today at Berlin’s Jewish Museum. It’s part of an art exhibition that will see the robot finish its work — 304,805 Hebrew letters later — in 3 months. The exhibit will ...