Torah, The

Chabad-Lubavitch of Curitiba, Brazil, celebrated 25 years of operation by dedicating a new building and a Torah scroll, and then quickly pledged to expand. Two newly arrived emissary-couples will help the institution do just that.

Alana Halperin says it’s not unusual to discover a swastika or other hurtful symbols scrawled or carved on school property at Lake Brantley High School in Altamonte Springs, Fla., a suburb north of Orlando. “It just happens sometimes,” says the 16-year-ol...

The Torah scroll comes alive at Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Jewish Children’s Museum as visitors to the Chabad-Lubavitch institution watch the sacred item being written by a certified scribe and witness demonstrations of how all of the scribe’s implements are proces...

A Torah scroll is made up of 304,805 letters. If even one letter is missing or incomplete it renders the entire scroll invalid. This concept serves as a metaphor for the Jewish people; for our nation to be complete each one of us is necessary.During the s...

When a Jew learns Torah, it draws G-d's glory down into the world.

Artist’s Statement: The curtains have opened and the Torah is shining. Zion is a concept. It is a place. It is a sign and it is our home. This painting began as a landscape, painted in earth tones of the hills surrounding Jerusalem. Two years later I adde...

Artist’s Statement: Talmudic dispute in the Shtetl of Mezhirich

Artist’s Statement: In my painting, I convey the love of Torah study.

Artist’s Statement: The best thing that could have happened to the Jewish people was receiving the Torah. It is our lifeline, our essence, our life.