The Jewish community of the greater Hudson Valley and Catskills region is being called to rally in support of the Landfield Avenue Shul in Monticello and in hopes of locating a stolen sefer torah that was stolen last Shabbos.
The rally will be held at the Shul on Sunday.
Rabbi Benzion Chanowitz said the rally will be “an expression of the community’s outrage that people’s property is broken into and their possessions stolen.” Aside from its monetary value – the Torah is worth some $35,000 – it has “a much more significant religious and spiritual value,” he told media outlets in a press release.
(Source: MidHudsonNews)
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2 Responses
Why publicize the “shavyus”of the sefer toira
It may be goirem copycats ?!?
Sabra — publicize it to get the Torah back. People already know how to steal Torahs, just like anything else. Putting out the word may have the opposite effect — now potential theives know we can catch them:
1. we Jews aren’t going stand by silently,
2. Sefer Torahs are coded, so if someone tries to sell it on the black market, the stolen Torah can be traced back to them.