Pentagon officials helped dedicate a Torah in a chapel built where a hijacked plane struck on Sept. 11. Jacob Hank Sopher, a Florida parking-lot magnate, donated the Torah scroll dedicated Monday in a ceremony featuring representatives of the different services and the Pentagon chaplain’s office.
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