The Torah’s journey that Shabbat had touched so many lives, offering strength at the Bar Mitzvah, solace to a community in ...

After ensuring that the students were sent home safely, the next priority was the protection of the center’s two Torah scrolls, one of which had been brought over from Europe by a family after ...

Flames were already attacking the campus of Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center when the cantor, Ruth Berman Harris, and three companions rushed in to rescue its sacred Torah scrolls. Physically ...

Photo by Patrick Wright The Nehdar family donated the Torah to the temple, where it stands out among the more typical velvet-covered scrolls. The traditional Persian Torah is encased in a tall ...