Westminster Synagogue News Today

God’s invisibility liberates us from our limited vision, creating the possibility of experiencing the presence of God in unexpected ways, at any time, in any place.

Sixty historic Torahs were featured in a procession at an Upper East Side synagogue Sunday to celebrate the salvaging of more than 1,500 of the religious artifacts from Nazi-occupied Prague.

Mark Glanville believed a haemorrhage on his vocal chords had brought his singing career to an end...until he began picking up the liturgical melodies at Westminster Synagogue

Since the Congregation Bonai Shalom in Boulder, Colorado, was founded in 1981, one of its several Torahs has been taken from the ark each Sabbath, and

Congregation Chaverim in Tucson has used Sefer Torah #531 since receiving it in 1976.

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 relic of a bygone Jewish community 6,000 miles away.

Temple Beth El members Linda Hutt, Nadav Sofian and Becky Rhoads have an extra incentive to stand before their congregation and read from a 25-pound religious artifact during the upcoming

Site Manager Diana Roof says the scroll started in Czechoslovakia and made its way to London before landing in Sumter.

Congregation Bonai Shalom is thrilled to announce that we have received a Torah from the Pinchas Synagogue in Prague, Czech Republic!

This week, I had an extraordinary experience -- and it was all the more extraordinary because it was so unexpected. I planned to be in Miami for a couple of days, and in anticipation of my trip asked the members of my “Baker Street Irregulars” WhatsApp group if any of them knew of an antiquarian