When I saw them being walked up to that stage, another image flashed before me – that of what Ashkenazim call a “Bimah” and Sephardim call a “Tevah” – the podium in the synagogue where ...

This latest excavation is the fifth in a series that began in 2015, when a ground-penetrating radar first traced remnants of the synagogue. Previous sessions revealed the bimah, the Torah ark and ...

(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.

Every synagogue has a Torah. They are handwritten in Hebrew. They’re beautifully decorated with velvet covers and silver ... This is the bimah, where we put the Torah scroll for the Rabbi ...

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 ...

The congregation comes together to open the synagogue manually, unfolding the roof, the women’s gallery and the praying platform ("Bimah"). Like a pop-up book, it opens a new world to the ...