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Topic: Torah

May 19, 2013
5:27 pm

Illustrative photo of a synagogue in Europe. (photo credit: Efrat Herman/Flash90)

Moscow inaugurates new synagogue

Russian rabbi dedicates Torah scroll at the recently opened Michurinsky Jewish house of prayer

May 13, 2013
9:36 pm

For beginners seeking their place in the Torah scroll, a tikkun, or guidebook, provides an excellent navigational tool. (photo credit: Edmon J. Rodman/JTA)

Torah navigation leads to new journeys

For the uninitiated, finding the right place in the the perfect columns of scribed, unvoweled Hebrew can seem daunting. Is there an app for that?

By Edmon J. Rodman

May 10, 2013
10:11 pm

Women celebrate the new month with prayer at the Western Wall, Friday, May 10, 2013(photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)

A resonant reversal at the Wall, as police protect the pluralists

400 non-Orthodox Jewish women make history at the Western Wall. But for some of them, the sense of victory is tinged by sorrow over the need for an ongoing fight

By Michal Shmulovich

May 3, 2013
12:59 pm

'Torah warns with horrifying images that if the people refuse to allow these pulsations of restfulness, the land will rest anyway – through famine, drought, plague, exile.' (illustrative image via Shutterstock)

Property, taxes and the interbreathing of all life

The fate of humanity and the Earth hinge on whether we embrace the precepts of sustainability in Leviticus 25 & 27

By Arthur Waskow

March 18, 2013
6:42 pm

The Torah ark at the newly built Tiferet Israel Este synagogue in Caracas, Venezuela. (Asociacion Israelita de Venezuela via JTA

Venezuelan synagogue opens in safer part of capital

New shul offers alternative to congregation in crime-ridden Caracas neighborhood

March 18, 2013
1:45 pm

Matisyahu says that despite his changed appearance, "I’m looking very much towards the Torah and Judaism as a source of inspiration." (Larry Busacca/Getty via JTA)

Matisyahu explains why he got less religious

The American reggae star lays out his reasons for abandoning the Hasidic lifestyle, and says true fans will stick with him

By Daniel Hoffman

January 27, 2013
10:18 am

Why Yair Lapid is good news for Torah study

The effort of making a living trains one to exert oneself with diligence — in the yeshiva study hall, as well

By Ross Singer

January 15, 2013
7:51 pm

Iraq War vet accused of vandalizing Torah in Tennessee

Now employed as a security guard, Justin Shawn Baker was arrested for damage caused during Jewish school’s Shabbat retreat

December 27, 2012
8:18 pm

An ultra-Orthodox Jew waits for the bus in a station with a vampire billboard in Jerusalem. (Photo credit: Nati Shohat /Flash90)

Ten of the best: The Times of Israel’s 2012 must-reads

An end-of-year selection from our first 10 and a half months of reporting Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world

By Times of Israel staff

December 18, 2012
12:09 pm

Joseph turned Egypt into a slave society (hieroglyphic image via Shutterstock)

The road to Egypt: job creators in the Ancient World

Joseph’s rise to power is no blueprint for good government but rather a profoundly cautionary tale

By Daniel Kaganovich and Jeremy England

November 28, 2012
8:21 pm

Kansas City shul donates Torah to Sandy-ravaged NY congregation

Dec. 4 ceremony will celebrate the gift from the Kehilath Israel Synagogue

November 28, 2012
1:32 pm

Bible scholar Tzemah Yoreh questions the common telling of the binding of Isaac -- the version that inspired Caravaggio -- in which an angel stops Abraham moments before he sacrifices his son. (Photo credit: From http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/isaac.jpgg/via Wikipedia)

When Abraham murdered Isaac

A young New York scholar believes he has unearthed the earliest version of the Bible, which features infanticide, a senseless massacre and only seven commandments 

By Haviv Rettig Gur

November 24, 2012
9:56 pm

On war, love and preserving an ethical core

Divine love and respect for human life changed everything for human existence.

By Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi

October 12, 2012
5:01 pm

Krakow congregation gets first Torah

Italian Reform community donates scroll to synagogue founded in 2009

October 7, 2012
3:54 pm

VeZot HaBracha: Is this the end?

To develop a relationship with God, one must be an involved participant

By Mois Navon

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