(JTA) — Rabbi Michael Wolk was nervous when he stepped foot onto his synagogue’s bimah in May 2021 — but not because his congregation was returning to in-person prayer after a pandemic pause.

What, then, would one find inside such an archetypical ‘Polish’ synagogue? The centre of the main hall would certainly be occupied by a bimah – a tradition that dated back to the Mediaeval Sephardic ...

The discovery this week follows the 2019 unearthing of the Tuscan baroque-style bimah, the synagogue’s central prayer platform, in the same dig by a team of international scholars headed by Jon ...

An ark positioned in the bimah, a platform from which the Torah and Prophets are read, holds scrolls saved from Holocaust-era European synagogues. Parts of the synagogue itself, which has ...

Rabbi Daniel Bouskila is the international director of the Sephardic Educational Center.

A synagogue is a place where Jewish people go ... We don’t touch the scrolls, so we use a yad which is a special pointer. This is the bimah, where we put the Torah scroll for the Rabbi and ...