May is Jewish American Heritage Month, a yearly celebration that recognizes the contributions and achievements of Jews in the ...

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 ...

(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 ...

there's also other parts of the synagogue," he says. As the work of recovering and identifying the rubble continues, Purin says his dream is that more parts of the Torah ark — an ornamental ...

(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 ...

retook possession of Touro Synagogue, “it discovered that CJI had removed one or more sacred Torah scrolls and related ritual objects from the holy ark at Touro Synagogue.” Michael Pimental ...

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 ...

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 ...