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Illustrative: A woman lays out tarot cards in the back of her shop in Norfolk, Virginia, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Finley)
May 20, 2026, 6:17 pm
Did medieval Jews hide a ‘secret synagogue’ in tarot cards? Boston exhibit turns over clues
‘Torah in the Tarot,’ named for researcher Stav Appel’s book of the same name, runs through June at the Vilna Shul, makes claim the deck was created by early crypto-Jews
By Rich Tenorio
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in his study in an undated photo (Koren Publishers)
September 1, 2025, 4:52 am
Posthumous Bible commentary by ex-UK chief rabbi seeks to unseat a synagogue staple
‘Ethical insights that apply to people’s everyday lives’: Five years after Jonathan Sacks died suddenly from cancer, Koren Publishers releases commentary culled from his works that it believes sets a new standard
By Zev Stub
Illustrative: Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal prepares Torah scrolls at the synagogue of the Chabad community in Berlin, Germany, Friday, October 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
August 28, 2025, 4:24 am
Two congregations, two opinions as Torahs hit the floor at separate NYC synagogues
Accidental dropping of the cherished scrolls can impact local communities – and the Jewish news cycle – while how it’s dealt with can teach us much about contemporary Jewish values
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Jewish educator Yiscah Smith in her garden in Jerusalem on May 22, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
July 19, 2025, 9:09 am
Veteran educator charts new spiritual path rooted in her Jerusalem garden
Yiscah Smith’s new book, ‘Planting Seeds of the Divine,’ blends Hasidic wisdom, personal transformation and contemplative practice
By Rossella Tercatin
Rabbi Dov Linzer and Abigail Pogrebin, study partners and co-authors of 'It Takes Two to Torah' (Lorin Klaris)
September 15, 2024, 4:33 pm
What happens when a seemingly odd couple becomes friends and Torah study buddies?
In their new book, Reform journalist Abigail Pogrebin and Orthodox Rabbi Dov Linzer show genuine warmth and respect for one another while not dancing around their differences
By Renee Ghert-Zand
IDF soldiers with Koren Jerusalem's special wartime edition of the Book of Genesis, in an undated photo. (courtesy)
November 30, 2023, 1:35 pm
Book publisher sends thousands of sacred texts to IDF soldiers
Koren Jerusalem creates special wartime compact edition of the Book of Genesis, with foreword written from the frontlines
By Gavriel Fiske
A pair of Torah finials crafted by silversmith Abraham de Oliveyra in the 18th century. (Courtesy Jewish Museum and Museum of Fine Arts)
August 11, 2023, 11:34 am
300-year-old Sephardic Torah ornaments to be displayed at US museums for 1st time
Works by Abraham de Oliveyra, the first known licensed Jewish silversmith in London, are bought jointly by Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and NYC Jewish Museum
By Penny Schwartz
Supporters of Shiite Muslim leader Moqtada Sadr burn a rainbow flag outside the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, after they breached the building over the burning of the Quran by an Iraqi living in Sweden, on June 29, 2023. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
July 5, 2023, 5:07 pm
After Quran, request filed with Swedish police to burn Torah outside Israeli embassy
Self-described free-speech advocates submit 3 requests to burn religious texts in what will likely spark further global uproar after Quran was burned outside a mosque in Stockholm
By ToI Staff
Religious Zionism party head MK Bezalel Smotrich after coalition talks at a hotel in Jerusalem, December 5, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 8, 2022, 9:11 am
Next treasury chief Smotrich: ‘Following the Torah will lead to financial abundance’
Far-right leader says he plans to examine ‘the macro and the micro’ of Israel’s economy once he enters office, but stresses that above all he is a religious Jew
By Tobias Siegal
President Isaac Herzog reads from the Bible during the septennial Hakhel ceremony at the Western Wall on October 12, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO(
October 13, 2022, 5:14 pm
Herzog presides over quasi-biblical gathering revived by his grandfather
Every 7 years, the people of Israel are commanded to hear their king read from the Bible; in the absence of a monarch, thousands turn out for a presidential reenactment
By Judah Ari Gross
An AI-generated illustration of an ancient king reading the Torah to an assembly of Jewish men, women and children, in keeping with the commandment of hakhel. (Image generated by DALL-E via JTA)
October 11, 2022, 12:24 pm
An ancient, Torah-reading assembly during Sukkot gets a 21st-century revival
The Jewish ritual of hakhel, where men, women and children gathered in Jerusalem to hear the king read Torah passages, is now inspiring Jews worldwide
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Rabbi Sorin Rosen is Romania's youngest-ever chief rabbi. (Courtesy of Rabbi Sorin Rosen/ via JTA)
September 6, 2022, 9:47 pm
Rabbi spends 7 years translating the Torah into Romanian
With an eye on translating the entire Bible, Rabbi Sorin Rosen is taking a moment to appreciate the texts that are already changing the way Romanian Jews engage with tradition
By Aviva Engel
The Oxford Annotated Mishnah is the product of 10 years of rigorous academic scholarship.(Image courtesy of Oxford University Press; design by Grace Yagel/ JTA)
June 21, 2022, 4:51 am
They set out to produce an ‘accessible’ Mishnah. The price tag: $645
Oxford University Press annotated version of notoriously cryptic Oral Torah compendium comes steep even for an academic title, but may become more affordable in the future
By Jackie Hajdenberg
In this July 16, 2010 photo, members of the religious group Minyan Tehillah look at a Torah scroll as they prepare for Shabbat services at Harvard Radcliffe Hillel, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)
June 9, 2022, 5:33 am
Conservative movement introduces non-binary liturgy for Torah honors
In unanimous vote, rabbinical panel signs off on lightly tweaked liturgy to accommodate people who do not identify as male or female to avoid ’embarrassment and disrespect’
By Judah Ari Gross
Yonatan Bendahan and Yuval Meyraz are the founders of CryptoVerses, a company selling nonfungible tokens of verses from the Bible. (CryptoVerses/ via JTA)
November 20, 2021, 3:39 pm
Meet the Israeli entrepreneurs putting the Bible on the blockchain
Yonatan Bendahan and Yuval Meyraz, cofounders of CryptoVerses, sell biblical verses as unique pieces of digital art – and the proceeds help fund a publicly available digital Torah
By Shira Hanau
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