Researchers from Cambridge have identified the author of an 10th century collection of biblical scriptures: Samuel ben Jacob, the same scribe who penned the Leningrad Codex. The Codex is the main ...

A Torah laid out before Passover Shabbat services at The Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life at Syracuse University in April 2015. An expert Jewish scribe with 40 years of experience creating Torah ...

Study comes as 'Great Isaiah,' a 24-foot-long text parchment found with the Dead Sea Scrolls, set to be displayed by the ...

Kalman Delmoor is a classically trained Hebrew scribe, or sofer, who sits in the Yochanan Ben Zakai historic synagogue, one of the Four Sephardi Synagogues in the Old City of Jerusalem. But he doesn’t ...

A 200-year-old torah scroll at the University of Arizona has many secrets hidden within the wear and tear that a Jewish scribe will look at this week. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the university’s ...

JERUSALEM — In a world overwhelmed by electronic gadgets that have changed the way we read, write and learn, the Jewish and Islamic arts of calligraphy have preserved their methods for generations.

ORLANDO, Fla. - The Torah used at the Jewish Academy of Orlando is marked with water spots, smudges, discolorations, rips and the normal wear and tear that comes from regular use. "It's not just a ...

(RNS) He's Samuel ben Jacob, a historic figure who also wrote the the earliest known complete copy of the Hebrew Bible. (RNS) The author of a 10th-century collection of scriptures has been identified ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A sacred Jewish religious scroll is being brought back to life at The Temple in Louisville. The Torah was damaged in 2018, when it was stolen and later dumped. "Jewish ...

LYNNWOOD — In observant Jewish homes, a cylindrical religious case is posted in the doorway. It’s a Mezuzah, a source of blessing. Inside is sacred scripture from the Torah written on a parchment ...

The prayerbook, written by a Jewish scribe, contains many of the same prayers recited by Jewish communities today. (JTA) — If you find your synagogue’s prayerbook a little dull at Rosh Hashanah ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Solkhat, the regional capital of the Golden Horde in the Crimean Peninsula, was a multi-cultural city, with two Jewish communities—Rabbanite ...