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...Religious Front," which campaigns (with little hope of success) for a state based on the law of the Torah. Two of its chief planks: strict observance of the Sabbath, and a ban on importation of nonkosher meat...
...appointed compartment in the synagogue rested the sacred Torah, which the nuns of Murcia had safely returned a few weeks before...
...Slowly a trickle of their descendants returned to the home of their ancestors. In 1917, one Ignacio Bauer opened Madrid's first synagogue since the expulsion. During the Spanish civil war, it was closed down once more and looted by the Communists. But Bauer managed to save the Torah (sacred book), and the Franciscan nuns of Murcia hid it in the crypt of their convent. Under the Franco regime, which requires police permits for gatherings of more than ten, Spain's 8,000 Jews had no place for public worship...
...minute chat with the new President of Israel, aging Dr. Chaim Weizmann (see FOREIGN NEWS), who presented him with a Torah covered in blue velvet. Confided Harry Truman: "I always wanted...
...Torah, a parchment scroll containing the Pentateuch (first five books of the Bible), is a sacred object, seldom taken from the synagogue...