An “expensive” Sefer Torah was stolen from the Erlau Beis Medrash in Yerushalayim’s Katamon neighborhood on the night between the first and second days of Rosh Hashanah. The Sefer Torah was on the street level of the beis medrash, where a minyan was being held on yomtov for the youth, towards alleviating some of the overcrowded conditions in the main beis medrash.

The gabbaim have filed a report with police and have decided to publicize the theft in the hope of alerting people should the thief try to sell it.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)