Nik Jakobs, a Jewish cowboy with a finance degree and four daughters, isn’t your typical synagogue president. Then again, the ...

“I thought it was really quite fancy, overdone,” she recalled recently, comparing it to the traditional wooden ark in the modest Philadelphia synagogue where she grew up. “But I’ve since ...

Tours of Touro were cut-off weeks after Congregation Shearith filed a new lawsuit against the former congregation.

A 16th Century Holy Ark from a synagogue in Italy is set to find a new home in New Jersey after being successfully restored. (photo credit: ALICE DIAS) A 16th Century Holy Ark from a synagogue in ...

One entered the synagogue through a metal door; metal shutters folded over windows; a plain blue ark cover was draped over an ark which housed a menorah, not a Torah; there was no cover on the ...

(The Conversation) — My earliest religious memory is of our synagogue’s Ner Tamid: the decorative electric lamp that hangs in every sanctuary, above the ark holding the Torah scrolls.

The synagogue housed three congregations — the ... We have an obligation to save this.” A door of the Torah ark was damaged by a bullet in the shooting. (David Aschkenas) For the museum ...

A synagogue is a place of worship for Jews ... The cupboard resembles the Ark in which the stone tablets engraved with the Ten Commandments were kept in the Temple.

there's also other parts of the synagogue," he says. As the work of recovering and identifying the rubble continues, Purin says his dream is that more parts of the Torah ark — an ornamental ...

For Magness, who currently leads excavations at a late-Roman synagogue in Galilee. the search for Noah’s Ark not only confuses the public, but diminishes excitement about actual archaeological ...