New Jersey Governor Alfred Driscoll addressed a meeting here tonight marking the formal presentation of 50 Scrolls of the Law to Israel. The Torahs, collected from synagogues throughout New Jersey by the state region of Napoel Hamizrachi, will be used in new settlements and villages in the Jewish state.
One of the Scrolls–donated by the Beth David Jewish Center here–comes from Germany and was first used in the middle 1700’s. A refugee who brought the Torah to the U.S. in 1936 died aboard ship. The Scroll, along with the rest of his personal belongings, remained unclaimed in the New York customs house for some time. The Torah was later bought at auction and presented to Beth David.
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