A movement “to perpetuate the memory of the saintly sage, the Rabbi Chofetz Chaim, by writing a communal Sefer Torah Scroll” was begun here at a meeting in the home of Hirsch Manischewitz, 300 Central Park West.
The Chofetz Chaim Memorial Society, organized at the meeting, will join with 500 rabbis and prominent citizens of Poland in an attempt to maintain educational institutions founded by the Chofetz Chaim. The committee will sell letters and passages of the scroll, to be placed in the Chofetz Chaim’s synagogue. Money from this sale will go toward the educational foundations. An office for the society has been donated by Harry Fischel at 276 Fifth avenue.
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