TSTI Torah-Fest Program With Clients From JESPY House Featured In NJJN

(This is an excerpt from an NJJN article)

Letter by Letter, a Torah unfurls in South Orange

by Robert Wiener of the New Jersey Jewish News-- Nov. 18, 2009

Cautiously, Lily Moretz placed her right hand on top of Rabbi Zerach Greenfield’s. Then, their hands moving together carefully, they inscribed a single Hebrew letter on a piece of parchment.

Moritz, a client of JESPY House, was one of some 20 people from there and other programs of the Jewish Service for the Developmentally Disabled came to Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel in South Orange on Nov. 11 to help write a Torah scroll.

Their combined effort will be repeated hundreds of times in the coming year, as the Reform congregation allows members and guests to join in the hands-on effort they call their Torah Project.

Read the full article on NJJN.

Zerach Meets With TSTI's Teens

As part of our on-going L'Dor VaDor Torah Project our scribe Zerach met with TSTI's Hebrew High teens.

He explained how a Torah is written and how Torah's are examined in order to identify how old they are and where they were written.