Hoffman, a Brooklyn native who was born in 1944, brought with him a scaled-down Torah and did the first Torah reading outside ... brought a menorah to celebrate Hanukkah, although he was never ...

There was a major shift in the world of Torah scholarship 2,200 years ago. A new light was born in response to the Greeks' darkness that, paradoxically, strengthened Torah scholarship for all time.

Hanukkah, an important holiday in the Jewish ... their religion and barred them from keeping the Sabbath, reading from the Torah or circumcising their sons under penalty of death, according ...

During the Jewish festival of Hanukkah ... they’d hide the Torah scrolls and bring out the dreidel so they could quickly engage in another activity instead of being seen reading their religious ...

Regardless if you're celebrating Hanukkah or not, it's always fun to ... At that time, learning Torah was outlawed and a crime viewed as punishable by death, resorting to Jews hiding in caves ...