In remembrance, one of the many traditions of this Hebrew holiday is for Jews to read the Megillah—the parchment scroll on which Esther’s story is written—twice during the festivities.

Similarly, the idea of "scrolling" on a webpage or app hearkens back to the unspooling of ancient papyrus or parchment scrolls. The drawback of emojis is that they have not yet been collated into ...

The exhibit is an expanded version of one hosted by the Jewish Museum of Rome last year, Visitors to the exhibit will be treated to the sight of an extremely rare 17th-century parchment scroll ...