Special respect is shown to the Torah, which is kept in a special cupboard known as the ‘ark’ in the synagogue. A yad will be used to point to words in the Torah while it is being read.

It is kept in a safe place called an ark in the Jewish temple and when people read from the Torah, they use a special pointer stick called a yad to follow the words. Jews worship God in a synagogue.

The new exhibition from Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial ... a satchel and a miniature Torah scroll that tell the story of the Austrian Jewry in the 1930s and the growing persecution ...