If a journey begins with the first step, what does a “journey in learning” begin with? At Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley, the answer is a new sefer Torah, which the Woodcliff Lake synagogue ...

ENCINO, Calif., May 8 (JTA) — “See that aleph in ‘asher’ “? Gabe, 18, asks. He points to a piece of parchment that is securely taped to a drafting table and that contains the first seven verses of ...

Sefaria is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the cultivation of Jewish learning. It has assembled a far-reaching library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation, ...

Congregation Beth Am Israel in Penn Valley marked the start of its Torah, Ruach, Limmud Campaign with a Torah writing celebration weekend from April 3 to 6. The events included Torah writing sessions ...

A Torah scroll written collaboratively by six women was completed in Seattle, marking a first for a group of female scribes, or sofrot. SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — It took seven years to write and just a ...

Menachem Mendel Korf, 8, was an integral part of the creation of a holy, sacred document. He wrote the Hebrew letter mem in the word “vayomer,” Hebrew for “and he said,” in the third line of a new ...

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A robot arm in the Berlin Jewish Museum is hard at work, carefully inking thousands of Hebrew letters on an 80-meter (260-foot) scroll. In about three months, it will have transcribed the entire Torah ...

A robot started writing a Torah today at Berlin’s Jewish Museum. It’s part of an art exhibition that will see the robot finish its work — 304,805 Hebrew letters later — in 3 months. The exhibit will ...