Simchat Torah

Soferet: Jewish Female Scribes Receive The Torah

25 May 2012

Julie Seltzer works on a Torah as part of the exhibit As It Is Written: Project 304,805 at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. (Bruce Damonte, courtesy of the Contemporary Jewish Museum)

Torah rescued from Nazis on permanent loan to North Fork synagogue

20 May 2012

A piece of Holocaust history resides in Cutchogue, but it’s far more than just a piece of the past. A mid-19th-century Torah from Tabor, in what is now the Czech Republic, is on “permanent loan� to North Fork Reform Synagogue in Cut­chogue — and the honor of caring for the priceless artifact is not on [...]

Mitchell Davis, Nathan Goldstein — Weddings

20 May 2012

The executive vice president of the James Beard Foundation is to marry a doctor on the staff of Mount Sinai Medical Center.