A 300-year-old Torah that had been used by the Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hassidism, was placed aboard the Zim liner Shalom, at a dock here, for shipment as a gift to an Israeli synagogue, Congregation Beit Aliahu, at Nathanya.
The holy scroll had been the property of David Twersky, of Brooklyn, a descendant of four generations of rabbis, whose great grandfather, the late Rabbi Samuel Kaufman, had brought the Torah to this country from Miropol, Russia, in 1921.
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