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Rumanian Jews Send 865 Additional Torah Scrolls to Israel

October 17, 1967
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The Romanian Federation of Jewish Communities announced here today that it had sent to Israel 865 more Torah scrolls gathered from abandoned synagogues in this country, bringing the total of holy scrolls sent from Rumania to Israel in the last two years to 3,000,

The project for sending the scrolls to Israel was initiated by Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen, with the approval of the Government, in 1965. A ceremony will be held in Jerusalem next month, Dr. Rosen said, in which he will formally turn over the Torahs to Israel’s Minister of Religious Affairs, Dr. Zorach Warhaftig.

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