Traveling Torahs
An Update on Italy’s Traveling Torahs Torah on a Train…Torah on a Plane…Torah on a Boat…Torah in a Tote Since 2004 when I arrived here in Italy my life has been a collection of “firsts.” First modern pluralistic rabbi in Italy, first woman rabbi in Italy, officiating at the first ever Bat Mitzvah in Rome […]
The Tiny Torah Travels to Jamaica
Bat Mitzvah of Chloe A. Montego Bay, Jamaica June 9, 2010 The Travelling Torah from which Chloe read (pictured here in Chloe’s arms) was inscribed in south central Europe, possibly in Slovenia or Romania in the years prior to 1880. We know this because after 1880, Rabbis defined the exact dimensions of a scroll and no […]
