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A Torah scroll, the most sacred item in Judaism, contains 300,000 letters of the first five books of the Bible. It is written entirely by hand with a feather, ...

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The Torah Scroll, which is handwritten, was donated by a Jewish family in Israel after Cohen placed a request of support. Pekar, assigned to the 86th Airlift Wing based out of Ramstein Air Base, ...

Because the work is so tedious and precise, it takes a year for a Torah to be completed at a cost of $70,000. A Rabbi can only read from a scroll that has been handwritten, said Steinmetz.

With the Schenks’ support in financing its passage from London, the Roudnice Torah scroll arrived at Beth Am on Yom Kippur, 1983, carried in by Lynn Schenk’s father, Sidney.