(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.

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 is the bimah, where we put the Torah scroll for ... There are different prayers for different services at the synagogue. Jewish people say the Shema prayer to show that they believe in ...

would one find inside such an archetypical ‘Polish’ synagogue? The centre of the main hall would certainly be occupied by a bimah – a tradition that dated back to the Mediaeval Sephardic philosopher ...

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 ...

with mere traces of once-vivid polychromes and absent bimah. This is perhaps only fitting of this imposing monument of Jewish life in Pińczów, as both the structure and the community saw great losses ...