Russia’s justice minister promised to help the Jewish community regain hundreds of Torah scrolls stored in the nation’s museums. Sergei Stepashin told Jewish religious leaders that the scrolls should be returned under the terms of a property restitution act signed by President Boris Yeltsin several years ago.
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