Congregations die, and other congregations need their Torah scrolls
From Tablet Magazine, 7/13/16, By Jan Jaben-Eilon
In April, Sarnat facilitated the donation of a Torah by Temple Hadar Israel in New Castle, Pennsylvania, to Beit Centrum Ki Tov, a brand new Progressive congregation in the center of Warsaw, Poland. In a couple of whirlwind weeks, one of the founders of Beit Centrum wrote a letter to the board of Temple Hadar Israel, explaining its need for the Torah, the board unanimously approved the donation, and the Torah was on its way to Los Angeles, where Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak, executive director of Friends of Jewish Renewal in Poland, was waiting to carry the 85-year-old Torah, originally from Poland, to Warsaw.
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