Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beth Israel Congregation President Zach Shemper digs Tuesday through the charred remains of his synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi.

Jackson, Mississippi (CNN) — What was once a place of worship filled with precious objects packed with meaning now sits in heavy layers of dark soot, burdened by the pungent smell of smoke after ...

Also damaged was a decades-old sculpture of Moses, one of Judaism’s greatest prophets who is often credited with receiving the Torah from God and writing it down. The sculpture, which survived the ...