Women of the Wall shared the joy of an intact morning service, including reading from a sacred, kosher, hand-scribed Torah scroll. This was not the first time in twenty-five years. Since the ...

the Torah scroll they had planned to use in their service was not allowed in. The group’s insistence on holding public Torah readings led by women is part of what has led to conflict over its ...

There, the mother of four proudly watched her 13-year-old daughter stand at the platform, carefully reciting Hebrew from a hand-written Torah scroll during ... on their Torah (reading),” said ...

She chanted the Scroll of Esther ... girls marking their bat mitzvahs with Megillah readings, as Lewin did. “Instead of a traditional Torah reading service or women’s tefillah [prayer ...

The Larson-Bethel Baghdad Torah is one of these rare, authentic scrolls, and includes many features that make it an important object of study. The scroll contains hundreds of erasures, corrections, ...