Word: kehilath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vienna Jewish community instructed Chemist Goldschmiedt to present the Torah to an orthodox synagogue in the U. S. Without such instruction, the Torah would have been considered stolen property by good Jews. Mr. Goldschmiedt gave the scroll, wrapped in a striped prayer shawl, to Manhattan's Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, which had it examined meticulously by a scribe, lest a jot or a tittle had been added or erased. The Congregation planned shortly to have it reconsecrated, to invite Catholics and Protestants to the ceremony...
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