The vandals also desecrated the ark, Torah scroll and prayer table, burned posters and stole silver religious objects, Mikhail Tulchinsky, a Bendery synagogue and community leader, told the local ...

The aron hakodesh is the cupboard that houses the Torah scrolls. The cupboard resembles the Ark in which the stone tablets engraved with the Ten Commandments were kept in the Temple.

I’m Orthodox and this is my synagogue – the place where Jewish people worship. Let’s go in! This is the ark, where we keep the Torah, an important scroll which contains Jewish rules and stories.

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