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Iceland Jewish community celebrates its first permanent Torah scroll
February 19, 2020
It was donated by Adina Krausz from Zurich, Switzerland, who chose to surprise her husband for his 50th birthday by giving a Torah to a community that did not have one.
Celebrants dance down the streets of Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, to mark the completion and inauguration of a Torah scroll on the European island. Photo by Gabriel Rutenberg/Chabad.org/News.
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Chabad inaugurates two new synagogues, two Torah scrolls in single day in Budapest
Ariel Ben SolomonSeptember 23, 2019
“I finished the two Torah scrolls myself at the place where 75 years ago, our martyrs were brutally shot into the water,” said Rabbi Shlomo Koves in Budapest.
Rabbi Shlomo Koves (left) rejoices with the Budapest Jewish community as it celebrates two new Torah scrolls and synagogue openings in Hungary, on Sept. 22, 2019. Credit: Zsolt Demecs.
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Ukraine synagogue where Begin married gets first Torah scroll since World War II
July 5, 2019
The Choral Synagogue was built in the mid-19th century for one of the biggest and most thriving Jewish communities of Galicia.
Interior of the newly restored Choral Synagogue in the Ukrainian town of Drohobych, July 3, 2019. Photo by Rephael Isaak Vilenskiy.
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Bnei Brak Torah scrolls recovered in Palestinian barn
June 17, 2019
Worth tens of thousands of dollars, they were hidden near Nablus alongside a small weapons cache.
Stolen Torah scrolls from the Orot Hatorah synagogue in Bnei Brak were recovered in a Palestinian Authority barn near Nablus on June 17, 2019. Source: Israel Police.
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Cape Town synagogue set ablaze, four valuable Torah scrolls completely burned
December 6, 2018
“We are all heartbroken by what has happened,” said the congregation’s rabbi, Sam Thurgood.
The Arthurs Road synagogue in Cape Town was set ablaze on Dec. 4, 2018, destroying four Torah scrolls. Credit: Screenshot.
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Woolsey and Camp Fires, 2018
Rabbi grabs Torahs before California wildfires reach synagogue
November 13, 2018
Rabbi Barry Diamond ran into his Thousand Oaks synagogue, and managed to evacuate four Torah scrolls and a Megillat Esther.
The smoke plume from the fast-moving Woolsey Fire encroaching on Malibu on November 9, 2018, as residents evacuate along the Pacific Coast Highway. Source: Cyclonebiskit, Wikimedia Commons
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