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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 537

Torah scrolls

Composite image showing the approaching fires in Los Angeles' Topanga Canyon neighborhood, with rabbis Dovid Weiss (left) and Mendy Piekarski (right) of Chabad of Topanga with rescued Torah scrolls. (images courtesy Chabad of Topanga)
January 14, 2025, 1:52 am
It’s a mitzvah: LA fires activate Jewish law of saving Torah scrolls from calamity
While saving human lives is top priority according to Jewish tradition, the mandate to save Torahs is a close second, propelling congregants into still-raging fires before evacuation
By Gavriel Fiske
Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin dedicate a new Torah scroll to their son, hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin on July 18, 2024 (Courtesy)
July 22, 2024, 9:49 am
Family of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin dedicates new Torah scroll to his return
Scribe completes last 120 letters, each one inscribed for a remaining hostage in Gaza, while joined by hundreds of members of the family’s Jerusalem community
By Jessica Steinberg
Hostage families attend a ceremony of writing a Torah scroll at the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in Meron, in northern Israel on March 10, 2024 (Photo by David Cohen/Flash90)
July 9, 2024, 10:45 am
Parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin launch ‘Week of Goodness’
Family aims to increase kindness, good deeds and generosity in the world in order to help bring about the redemption of 116 remaining October 7 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza
By Jessica Steinberg
Families of Hamas hostages dance at the Western Wall on November 21, 2023 with two new Torah scrolls dedicated to the return of the hostages and in memory of those killed on October 7 (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 12, 2023, 1:24 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 12: Day 67 – Scribes write Torahs for troops, hostages, kibbutz
Diaspora affairs reporter Canaan Lidor discusses Nahal Oz kibbutz relocation and Torah scrolls on turbo as Tech Israel editor Sharon Wrobel looks at consumer spending since Oct. 7
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A pointer is used to follow the Hebrew written passages in the Torah. (AP Photo/ Rogelio Solis)
June 8, 2023, 9:05 pm
‘Priceless’ 18th-century Torah to be on ‘Antiques Roadshow’ UK
The Reform Kehillat Kernow congregation in Cornwall calls the incredible scroll its ‘most sacred possession’
By Michelle Rosenberg
A Turkish man, walks on the debris of the heritage houses that destroyed during the devastated earthquake, in the old city of Antakya, southern Turkey, Monday, February 13, 2023. (AP/Hussein Malla)
February 22, 2023, 8:32 pm
Ruins of Turkish city of Antakya tell story of a rich past
Jewish community’s leaders died in 7.8-quake this month; city ‘can be rebuilt, but it will not be like the old one,’ resident says
By Sarah El Deeb
Protesters wave flags showing the face of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) and march with an effigy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during a demonstration organized by The Kurdish Democratic Society Center against Erdogan and Sweden's NATO bid, in Stockholm on January 21, 2023. (Christine OLSSON/TT News Agency/AFP)
January 31, 2023, 6:08 pm
Muslim man says he’s delaying protest Torah burning near Israeli embassy in Sweden
Man has reportedly received approval from Swedish authorities for demonstration, which comes in wake of a far-right politician’s recent burning of a Quran outside Denmark mosque
By David I. Klein
Jack Abraham with his family Torah, which has been used by his family and the Jewish community around the world for almost two decades. (Courtesy via JTA)
July 7, 2022, 9:55 am
New York man says precious family Torah stolen from Las Vegas hotel
Jack Abraham brought the scroll for Shabbat services at trade show, was told the room where he left it was secured; says police told him suspect tried to sell the artifact
By Jacob Henry
Eliyahu David Kay, killed in a terror attack in Jerusalem on November 21, 2021. (Instagram / HaShomer HaChadash)
July 4, 2022, 5:33 pm
Family of slain South African immigrant starts global drive to complete Torah scroll
Project to commemorate Eli Kay, who was murdered by a Hamas gunman in Jerusalem, seeks to create portable memorial for trekkers and tour groups in Israel
By Jacob Rivkin
The Rhodes Torah (Amit Dekel Productions via National Library of Israel)
June 1, 2022, 2:18 pm
National Library shows off rare Torah scrolls, including one mufti saved from Nazis
Delicate parchment filmed in time for Shavuot; one was hidden in mosque during WWII; another thought to belong to merchant said to serve as Poland’s king for a day in 16th century
By ToI Staff
Uwe Mader with the Torah scroll fragments he handed over to the city of Görlitz, December 16, 2021. (Pawel Sosnowski via JTA)
December 19, 2021, 9:20 pm
83 years after Kristallnacht, sections of lost Torah scroll resurface in German town
Protestant minister in Görlitz turns over segments of Torah that had been in safekeeping since the anti-Jewish pogrom in 1938
By Toby Axelrod
A stolen Torah scroll originally from Baghdad that was allegedly found with a Umm al-Fahm resident arrested by police, on November 17, 2021. (Israel Police)
November 17, 2021, 7:28 pm
Cops find stolen Torah originally from Baghdad that alleged thief planned to sell
Police say scroll is hundreds of years old and worth hundreds of thousands of shekels; was found in home in northern town of Umm al-Fahm
By ToI Staff
A Torah scroll that the Nazis stole from a Czech congregation on display at The Memorial Scrolls Trust in London. (Courtesy of the European Union for Progressive Judaism via JTA)
September 20, 2021, 11:15 pm
Torah stolen by Nazis for post-Holocaust ‘Jewish museum’ back in use in Prague
130-year-old scroll will be used in a service on Simchat Torah for first time since it was looted by the Nazis in 1942
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Part of an item seized by Turkish police on March 26, 2021. (Turkish police)
March 31, 2021, 6:29 pm
Police in Turkey claim to find, seize 2,000-year-old Torah scroll
Ancient text was reportedly taken Friday, when police stopped two cars for an inspection in Samsun; 5 people detained
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Rabbi Shaul Nekrich (R) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) attend a ceremony to complete the historic Sulzbach Torah Scroll from 1792, rediscovered in 2015 and just restored, on the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz death camp, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. (Odd Andersen/Getty Images via JTA)
January 28, 2021, 8:58 am
German chancellor participates in historic Torah scroll refurbishing ceremony
18th century Sulzbacher Torah survived the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938, found faded due to ‘ravages of time’ after abandoned until 2015
By Toby Axelrod
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