On February 9, 1767, just a few weeks before the Jewish holiday of Purim, a Jewish teen in Rome celebrated her 14th birthday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rabbi Juan Mejia, at Oklahoma City's Emanuel Synagogue, works on a parchment scroll inscribed with The Megillah — the Book of ...

The Jewish community of Chapman University had cause for celebration Sunday when the last of the 304,805 Hebrew letters were painstakingly inked onto a parchment scroll, marking the completion of the ...

Now, for the first time since 1968, the Great Isaiah Scroll has been unrolled to its full 24-foot length and placed on public display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, a rare exhibition museum ...