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 ...

I’m Orthodox and this is my synagogue – the place where Jewish people worship. Let’s go in! This is the ark, where we keep the Torah, an important scroll which contains Jewish rules and stories.

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

(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 ...

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 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.