The Torah’s crown was described in the eBay post as “a pure silver hand-made and carved Sefer torah crown,” which was donated by Menahem and Erynne Rennert to a Jewish synagogue in Jerusalem ...

The highest price realized for an item in the sale was on an 18th-century silver Torah crown from Italy. Assigned an estimate of $200,000-$300,000, it realized $478,000.

A Crown Heights Shul was burglarized on Friday night and the thief made off with the silver crown of the Sefer Torah, tools, a guitar and other items of value, crownheights.info reported.

The rare Torah finials (also called rimonim) at the center of this debate were created between 1766 and 1776 by Myer Myers. He was the first formally trained Jewish silver artisan in the British ...

One such institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, acquired a mid-18th-century Italian silver Torah crown (an ornament for a holy book) for $857,000 and a pair of Russian silver ...

In addition to the emotional and spiritual trauma, there’s physical damage to be repaired: The silver crown of one of the scrolls is bent and the wooden handle of another cracked.