Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 25—TRAVERSE CITY — Something remarkable, even "miraculous," happened in the shadow of World War II that eventually reached ...

As Holocaust survivor Sidney Schenk entered the sanctuary of the newly established Beth Am synagogue, he carried in his arms a fellow Holocaust survivor: the Torah scroll of Roudnice nad Labem, a ...

When I was a kid growing up in New York City in the 1950s, Torah mantles, the cloth covering that protects the Torah, were blue velvet with gold trim. Occasionally, there was a lion, and there was ...

A fire tore through a commercial building on Northern Boulevard in Greenvale Wednesday morning. More than 60 firefighters battled the thick smoke, but as they made their way to the basement, something ...

Yisrael Yudkin, a 22-year-old Israeli Defense Forces deputy company commander, was killed in Gaza during a rescue mission. To honor Yudkin, the Chabad of Downtown SRQ commissioned a handwritten Torah ...

From a World War II warehouse in Prague to Port St. Lucie, a torah scroll has found a new home at Temple Beth EI Israel. This scroll, which features the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, is one of ...

While the Nazis stormed through the Czech Republic in World War II, they collected thousands of Jewish artifacts to create a “museum of an extinct race.” However, historians believe it was actually ...

A father’s love for his firstborn son. Is there anything so pure? It’s affection, of course. And pride. And support for the young man’s dreams and aspirations. So, when that son is taken from father ...