The ark, which houses the synagogue’s Torah scrolls, is the work of artist Arthur Szyk (1894-1951), a Polish-born artist who rose to fame in the United States with vivid, technicolor drawings on ...

The local Jewish population was already in decline when the Belfast Hebrew Congregation was built in 1964 as a house of ...

(photo credit: ALICE DIAS) A 16th Century Holy Ark from a synagogue in Italy is set to find a new home in New Jersey. This important Renaissance-era Jewish artifact has been the subject of awe for ...

(Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images) A synagogue with more than 100 years ... which had a wooden Torah ark carved by the Jewish artist Peter Krasnow, and three outbuildings since the 1940s.

Tablets of the Ten Commandments sit atop the old ark inside the library at Unified Jewish Congregation of Baton Rouge on Tuesday, October 8, 2024. The new synagogue includes multiple references to ...

(The Conversation) — My earliest religious memory is of our synagogue’s Ner Tamid: the decorative electric lamp that hangs in every sanctuary, above the ark holding the Torah scrolls.

Access to the Ark was via a split staircase ... Designed to double as a stronghold for the Jewish community in times of danger, the synagogue could hold up to 5,000 worshippers on High Holy ...

It is suspected that the suspect entered the building approximately one week ago, stole the charity boxes, and attempted to steal the Torah scrolls from the Holy Ark. According to the indictment ...

The Potsdam Synagogue is opening its doors to the public ... But the room has everything a Jewish house of prayer needs: a Torah ark in an old chamber, a lectern for the Torah scrolls and chairs ...

And they held a klezmer concert to raise enough money to buy the building that has been in continuous use as a synagogue ever since — making ... like our eternal light over the [Torah] ark. Our ...