For bar mitzvah boys: Should you give them a sefer in Hebrew, which they may not be able to read for another five years (or perhaps ever), or should you give them something in English?

First Impressions: Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing Joseph A. Skloot Uncovers the history of creative adaptation and transformation through a close analysis of Sefer Hasidim In 1538, a ...

Rabbi Lenny Sarko was told making a braille Sefer Torah while adhering to kosher laws was impossible. Challenge accepted. Four years later, Sarko produced the first braille Torah. Sarko is the ...

Rabbi who had trouble with his vision created a Braille Sefer Torah Torahs are supposed to be read and not memorized, which a Braille Torah makes possible for blind and visually impaired Jews.

Sefer Yetzira, ascribed to the Patriarch Abraham, is a basic treatise for Jewish Mystical Meditation. Several of its chapters deal with the unique qualities of each of the 12 Jewish months and ...

The first Torah scroll was placed this week in the Chabad House for Hebrew Speakers in Irvine, Orange County, California. Rabbi Rafi Dadon and his wife founded Chabad House for Hebrew Speakers of ...

Celebrate Farber Hebrew Day School’s 60th year with a Hachnasat Sefer Torah event on Sept. 29. Join the community for live music, dancing, and a special Torah dedication ceremony.

Filled with ideas like exercise, healthy eating, and proper hygiene, parts of the earliest medical book written in Hebrew sound quite modern. But there’s plenty in the Sefer Refuot—Book of ...