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A Torah scroll that has been in Larry Sokoloff's family for decades made a 350-mile car ride this spring to the Bay Area, where it will continue to anchor family simchas.
Congregation Kol Emeth’s new $30 million campus in Palo Alto is partially modeled on the Mishkan, the portable Tabernacle that God instructed the ancient Israelites to build in the desert. Like that structure, it is twice as long as it is wide, and it includes a sanctuary and a courtyard. Very much unlike the Mishkan, however, it has elevators, locked doors that open with keycards, security cameras and state-of-the-art video streaming equipment befitting a 21st-century synagogue in Silicon Valley. (Also, just to be clear, there is no sacrificial altar.) Designed by Kol Emeth members Stan Fi...