A Torah from a U.S. Jewish community is slated to arrive in Sofia later this week as part of a program to replace 11 scrolls stolen in late February from the Bulgarian capital’s Central Synagogue. The Torah from Kansas City was written in Romania in the early part of the 20th century.
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