A delegation of 38 people, mostly from Ottawa’s Kehillat Beth Israel Congregation, carried a Torah scroll to Tanzania last month to replace it. Photo by Rabbi Eytan Kenter / - ...

The find isn’t the oldest Torah text in the world: the Leningrad and the Aleppo bibles — both of them Hebrew codexes, or books — pre-date the Bologna scroll by more than 200 years.

Letters are added to a Torah scroll by Holocaust survivor Ben Carniol with the help of Jonny Daniels. Daniels was entrusted with the holy text in 2016, after it was discovered by a Polish couple.

The pain is with us. The only comfort is Torah — which is eternal, which uplifts.” “From now on, the Torah scroll will accompany the students in their daily study and reading.

This morning, an organization known as Original Women of the Wall held a prayer service in the women’s section, followed by a Torah reading, to honor one of its founding members. The group of ...

Even if only 85 letters remain in a damaged Torah scroll (out of over 300,000 it takes to write a complete Torah), the sages said, a Torah is still to be saved and, even if damaged beyond repair ...