Holocaust Scroll News Today

Cantor Julie Yugend-Green was the first member of the Oak Park Temple B'nai Abraham Zion (OPT) to see the Holocaust Torah Scroll, which was transferred to the care of the Oak Park synagogue last month by the Memorial Scroll Trust in London, UK.“The first time I opened it,” she recalled, “I saw how beautiful it was, and I thought about how many hundreds if not thousands of people have chanted and told stories from it. I felt those voices. I felt the history.”

The president of the congregation beth israel in charlottesville tells a harrowing story. of what the rabbi and dozens of people went through inside their synagogue this past friday. a man dressed in fatigues with a long rifle standing across the street from the temple shouting theres the synagogue and sieg heil. having to remove the torahs and a holocaust scroll to keep them safe, because they were afraid the synagogue was going to be burned down. earlier today i spoke with rabbi tom goodhertz....