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An illustrative image of the biblical prophet Moses leading the Jews out of slavery in Egypt in the Exodus.

Rewriting our prophetic story: A message from this week’s haftarah

By KENNETH BRANDER

Reading a torah scroll

Torah Scroll rescued from ancient Syrian synagogue to be returned

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Senators Lindsey Graham (R- SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) at a signing of a special Torah Scroll at the Western wall in honor of victims of October 7.

Senators Graham, Blumenthal sign Torah scroll in honor of October 7 victims

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Illustration.

I’m a rabbi who wrote a fantasy novel drawing inspiration from Judaism's sacred past

By RABBI JILL HAMMER\JTA

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays on the banks of a lake in Uman, Ukraine

Herzog adds final letter to Zelensky's wartime Torah for Ukrainian Jews

By Marcel Gascón Barberá/JTA

Satan, Battistero di San Giovanni, Florence by Dimitris Kamaras

First creation of Adam: What is the Serpent?

By EDUARD SHYFRIN

The Olim community of JTLV celebrates the writing of a Torah scroll at an army base at the Gaza border

Birth of a Torah amid chaos on the Gaza battlefield

By SHIRLEY FINKELSTEIN

People demonstrate against the desecration of the Quran in Denmark, in Sanaa, Yemen July 24, 2023.

Denmark passes bill to ban Quran burnings

By REUTERS

Simchat Torah at the Kotel (Western Wall), Jerusalem, October 2018.

Torah scrolls to be written at Western Wall, dedicated Gaza hostages, fallen soldiers

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

FRESH EYES: Lifting a Torah scroll at Yeshiva University in New York, 1950.

Vezot habracha: The blessing of the Torah

By MICHAEL M. COHEN

PRAYER FOR rain: Strong stream of rainwater in Ein Prat Nature Reserve, Wadi Qelt, south of Jerusalem, this past Feb.

Simchat Torah: The joy of Torah and the prayer for rain - opinion

By DVORA WAYSMAN

THE JOY of getting close to the Torah

On the eve of Simchat Torah - are women allowed to touch the Torah?

By NECHAMA GOLDMAN BARASH

THE PROPHET Isaiah by 19th-century illustrator Gustave Dore.

Parashat Shoftim: Values and power

By RABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ

Burning books.

Sweden approves Torah burning in Stockholm outside Israeli embassy

Torah scrolls being moved from the Western Wall to genizah.

19 historic Torah scrolls moved to genizah at Mount of Olives

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The Turkish flag flies at the Embassy of Turkey in Washington, US, August 6, 2018.

Is Turkey trying to put Jews in the middle of Sweden-Ankara tensions? - analysis

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Reading a torah scroll

UAE museum unveils Torah scroll that survived the Holocaust in tolerance push

By REUTERS

Standing and on the floor are the women who took the exam. In the middle row, heads of Ohr Torah Stone and Matan Sharon

15 women blaze trail in Halacha education