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Following incidents in Zhitomir and Kiev, Ukrainian Jewish leaders are protesting the seizure of Torah scrolls by the government archives. Most of the scrolls now being used in Ukrainian synagogues were acquired by the state archives and museums through communist and Nazi looting. After Ukrainian independence in 1991, in the absence of a restitution law, […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315