A group of American Jews presented a Torah to a century-old synagogue near the Auschwitz death camp. On Oct. 17, a group of 26 Jews from Cleveland gave a scroll to the Lomdei Mishnayot Synagogue, which reopened two years ago and was among a dozen shuls that served 7,000 Jews in the city of Oswiecim before World War II.
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