Fifty United Jewish Appeal leaders departed for Israel on the 1975 UJA Cash Mission, and carried with them a Torah which was hidden in Europe throughout the Holocaust and will now find its final home in a Jerusalem yeshiva. The Torah was hidden from the Nazis when the synagogue in which it was housed was destroyed on Kristallnacht. It was hidden during World War II and brought to the United States by a U.S. Army Chaplain, who gave it to the Scarsdale Synagogue in Scarsdale, NY.
The request for the Torah originated with Stephen (Simcha) Abramson, a former New York resident who is now a student at the Diaspora Yeshiva in Jerusalem, which is attended by 100 young people who have come to Israel from the U.S. His father, Samuel H. Abramson, is a UJA executive accompanying the Cash Mission. Although the Torah is posse (non-kosher), it will be made whole by an Israeli scribe, and presented to the yeshiva.
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