'Honor of a lifetime': Jacksonville Jewish community celebrates rabbi with new Torah scroll

Members of the Jacksonville Jewish community gathered Sunday afternoon to honor Rabbi Yaakov Fisch with one of Judaism’s most ...
Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Sarasota Chabad center dedicates holy scroll to fallen soldier

Yisrael Yudkin, a 22-year-old Israeli Defense Forces deputy company commander, was killed in Gaza during a rescue mission. To honor Yudkin, the Chabad of Downtown SRQ commissioned a handwritten Torah ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Two towns, 6,000 miles, and one aging Torah scroll: Holocaust document connects two Jewish communities

As Holocaust survivor Sidney Schenk entered the sanctuary of the newly established Beth Am synagogue, he carried in his arms a fellow Holocaust survivor: the Torah scroll of Roudnice nad Labem, a ...