In Hebrew, the word “aron” can mean closet, coffin, or ark (not the Noah one but the one used in our synagogues to house Torah scrolls). Since the ark is a special type of a closet (we store clothes ...

Rabbi Akiva teaches us that every letter in the Torah has a reason, and the commentators certainly had this idea in mind in their explanations of Parshat Trumah. Every vessel, every measurement, has a ...

As the latest of a number of Jewish heritage projects coordinated by the Vercelli Jewish community in recent years, a 400-year-old wooden Aron Kodesh (Torah scroll ark) has been fully restored and ...

The dedication of a new Torah in a small city is always a special cause for celebration and festivity because it happens so infrequently. On Sunday, July 7, in Hudson Hall at the Hudson Opera House, ...

The ornately carved chair that Samuel presented to Kook on behalf of King George V remains in its place of honor on the synagogue’s eastern wall next to the aron hakodesh (Torah ark). Scores of ...