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The rabbi showed us the specially prepared kosher ink he uses to repair damaged Torah scrolls. It was in a travel-size bottle of Pantene shampoo. "Airport security never looks inside this," Rabbi Levi ...

Sofer Neil Yerman dipped a turkey feather quill into an inkwell Sunday and carefully traced the letters on Congregation Kneseth Israel’s Torah scroll. One by one, congregants of the Elgin synagogue ...

Levi Selwin uses a quill pen and special black ink made in Israel to repair the Hebrew letters on this Torah at the Herzl-Ner Tamid synagogue on Mercer Island on March 21. This Torah is more than 100 ...

“Justice, justice you shall pursue that you may live and inherit the land which the Lord has given you.” (Deuteronomy 16:20) So read the words chosen by Rabbi Joe Mendelsohn of the Reform Temple of ...

A Torah scroll (code of Jewish laws) contains 304,805 letters and has to be written according to strict rules in order to be used for prayers. When the children at the Hebrew Academy Community School ...

WEST LAFAYETTE - Each week, Rabbi Michael Harvey removes the Torah from its sacred space and reads from it, sharing the words of the Hebrew Old Testament during services at Temple Israel. Yet all that ...

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VAIL — The good stuff never changes. Take a Torah, for instance. “It goes back thousands of years,” Rabbi Kevin Hale said. “The fragments found in the Dead Sea Scrolls were written the same way they ...