The find isn't the oldest Torah text in the world. The Leningrad and the Aleppo bibles - both of them Hebrew codexes, or books - pre-date the Bologna scroll by more than 200 years. But this is the ...

Because the work is so tedious and precise, it takes a year for a Torah to be completed at a cost of $70,000. A Rabbi can only read from a scroll that has been handwritten, said Steinmetz. If it ...

It’s been over 25 years since Chisuk Emuna commissioned the writing of a new Torah scroll, said Todd Barron, president of the congregation. The one started Sunday will also be the first done in ...