EditorialSarah Baron, a mother of two and a board member of a Louisville synagogue, in Louisville, Ky., June 19, 2023. (Andrew Cenci/The New York Times)
EditorialSarah Baron, a mother of two and a board member of a Louisville synagogue, in Louisville, Ky., June 19, 2023. (Andrew Cenci/The New York Times)
EditorialSarah Baron, a mother of two and a board member of a Louisville synagogue, in Louisville, Ky., June 19, 2023. (Andrew Cenci/The New York Times)
EditorialSarah Baron, a mother of two and a board member of a Louisville synagogue, in Louisville, Ky., June 19, 2023. (Andrew Cenci/The New York Times)
EditorialSarah Baron, a mother of two and a board member of a Louisville synagogue, in Louisville, Ky., June 19, 2023. (Andrew Cenci/The New York Times)
EditorialSarah Baron, a mother of two and a board member of a Louisville synagogue, in Louisville, Ky., June 19, 2023. (Andrew Cenci/The New York Times)
EditorialSarah Baron, a mother of two and a board member of a Louisville synagogue, in Louisville, Ky., June 19, 2023. (Andrew Cenci/The New York Times)
EditorialSarah Baron, a mother of two and a board member of a Louisville synagogue, in Louisville, Ky., June 19, 2023. (Andrew Cenci/The New York Times)
EditorialSarah Baron, a mother of two and a board member of a Louisville synagogue, in Louisville, Ky., June 19, 2023. (Andrew Cenci/The New York Times)
EditorialSarah Baron, a mother of two and a board member of a Louisville synagogue, in Louisville, Ky., June 19, 2023. (Andrew Cenci/The New York Times)
EditorialView of Torah finials, Iraq, 1741-42, gilt silver, formerly in the Sassoon Family Collection, at the Jewish Museum in New York, March 1, 2023. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
EditorialA Chinese Torah in the collection of the Jewish Theological Seminary studied by Professor Menahem Schmelzer, rear, in New York on Feb. 9, 1973. (Edward Hausner/The New York Times)
EditorialRabbi Sharon Kleinbaum and Cantor Sam Rosen dance during a celebration at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in Manhattan on Oct. 17, 2022. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
EditorialA 19th-century ivory memorandum book and a fragment of a parchment Torah, right, part of the “Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day” exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York, on Nov. 30, 2022. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
EditorialRabbi Philip Hiat, left, and others in 1981 examining Torah scrolls salvaged from Polish synagogues that were destroyed during the Nazi occupation. (Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times)
EditorialAt a protest on Friday, May 2, 2022, against restrictions on women praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a woman holds a Torah scroll that was smuggled in. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv/The New York Times)
EditorialCongregants of Bais Yosef Meir, an Orthodox Jewish congregation in Monsey, N.Y., walk home after celebrating Simcha Torah, SEPT. 30, 2021. (Sara Naomi Lewkowicz/The New York Times)
EditorialJosh Spiegel, whose mother Judy perished in the Champlain Tower South condominium collapse, holds a Torah Scroll during a service at the Shul of Bal Harbour, a Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue in Surfside, Fla., July 18, 2021. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
EditorialUltra-Orthodox Jewish men fill a street before a rally for the United Torah Judaism party, in Jerusalem, Sept. 15, 2019. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)