Jewish Boiseans gathered with the broader community this weekend to celebrate the formal installation of a new rabbi and the restoration of their historic Torah scrolls. Johanna Hershenson is the ...

HUDSON — On Sunday, July 7, over 250 people from around Columbia County joined together at Hudson’s Historic Opera House for a festive luncheon welcoming the Columbia County Jewish Community’s new ...

Biblical scholars have long argued that the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of an ascetic and celibate Jewish community known as the Essenes, which flourished in the 1st century A.D. in the scorching ...

The B’nai Jacob Torah scroll that survived the Holocaust (Courtesy of Congregation B’nai Jacob) Every time Rabbi Jeff Sultar lifts up the Torah that’s in the care of Congregation B’nai Jacob, he feels ...

MADISON — A progressive Jewish congregation in Madison is poised to become the first in the city and perhaps one of only a dozen or so in the world to own a Torah scroll written by a female scribe.

The Yiddish press in the United States was singled out for special honors this weekend when scrolls of honor were presented to the Jewish Daily Forward and the Jewish Day-Journal, citing the Yiddish ...