Torah scrolls that had been evacuated from New Orleans to Baton Rouge because of Hurricane Katrina were again moved to keep them safe after Rita. “They had to re-rescue the Torahs that had already been rescued once,” Emily Grotta, a spokeswoman for the Union for Reform Judaism, said of the scrolls that were being kept at Beth Shalom Synagogue.
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