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Please review your cart. The scroll was on display throughout September in the city hall, until a wealthy local businessman purchased it for his collection. He said his goal is to keep the scroll in the city of Covilha. The Torah, dated approximately to the year , was abandoned in a Baghdad synagogue with many other scrolls during the exodus of Iraqi Jews to Israel in There the Torahs remained, collecting desert dust, until Saddam stockpiled and hid them not long before the start of the Persian Gulf War. But in , the Torah was rescued, along with 34 others.

An Iraqi Muslim stole them from Saddam, smuggled them into Jordan and from there they made their way to Israel. The son of Blu Greenberg, an Orthodox feminist activist, was involved in helping to restore one of the scrolls. Greenberg and her family presented the scroll to Drisha as a gift in late , dedicated to the memory of her father. The scroll remains in active use at Drisha today.

The scroll, estimated to be to years old, first came to the congregation in the s. It is one of the few existing items from the once-thriving Jewish community of Mlada Boleslav, Czechoslovakia. The Nazis agreed, apparently happy to have the Jews do the work for them. They were moved to Prague in and stacked in a warehouse with close to 1, scrolls from around Europe that the Nazis had confiscated. In , the Torah scrolls were discovered by an art expert, who arranged to have them purchased by the British government and brought out of Prague.

The Temple Beth Shalom scroll is unique, according to a local scribe, because it includes script from both Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews. The scroll had been restored in England before arriving in Santa Fe, and was used for many years by the congregation. But a heavy monsoon in caused severe damage to it, rendering it unfit for use. Earlier this year, months of clandestine activity culminated in the airlift of a group of 19 Jews from Yemen to Israel. Well, 19 Jews and one Torah scroll.

Among the new immigrants was Rabbi Saliman Dahari, who arrived with his parents and his wife, and met his children upon arrival at the absorption center. The rabbi brought with him a Torah scroll that is estimated to be to years old. Dahari later met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who welcomed him and the others and thanked him for bringing the scroll to Israel. But authorities in Yemen are furious about the scroll. Sixty-nine years after Kristallnacht, a Torah scroll rescued by a priest from a burning synagogue was rededicated in a Cologne synagogue. The scroll was estimated to have been written in But in , when pope Benedict XVI visited the synagogue, he had the idea of refurbishing the scroll — paid for by Cologne archbishop Joachim Cardinal Meisner.

And so the scroll was painstakingly restored by a scribe in Jerusalem, before being triumphantly returned to Cologne in for a rededication ceremony. A Torah rescued from a synagogue in Berkach, Germany, and restored for use in Winter Springs, Florida, was brought back to the synagogue for its th anniversary celebrations. The scroll, believed to have been written in the early 19th century, was in use at the German synagogue for close to years. Then, with the outbreak of the Holocaust, Lothar Gould smuggled it out with him as he fled the Nazis. He brought it to Florida, where he kept it for decades.

Several members of the community accompanied the Torah scroll back to Germany in June , to celebrate years since it was first inaugurated in In , the Jewish community was forced to relinquish control of the synagogue for demolition. But the demolition was never carried out.