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the bar or bat mitzvah," says Rabbi
Joseph Klein.
The Torah originally was used in the
only synagogue in the town of Leipnik
(Lipnik nad Becvou) in northeast
Moravia, Czechoslovakia. Since 1942,
when all the town's Jews were deport-
ed to concentration camps, there has
been no Jewish presence in Leipnik,
but their Torah is still used.almost
weekly at Temple Emanu-El.
Some of the scrolls rescued by the
Westminster Synagogue group were
irreparably damaged during the
Holocaust and are exhibited, rather
than read.
At Adat Shalom Synagogue in
Farmington Hills, Czechoslovakian
Memorial Scroll No. 1017 is displayed
on a Torah mantel dedicated by
Eleanor and Saul Bluestone in memo-
ry of Morris Bluestone, Sarah
Bluestone and Sydney Bluestone. The
Torah was written in 1890, and is
from the town of Kyjov,
Czechoslovakia, the only one of
the royal cities where Jews were
permitted to live. In 1943, all
Jews from the town were deport-
ed.

In a letter written by MSU ombuds-
man Stan Soffin, he describes an
Eastern European Torah that ended up
in his hometown of -Owosso,• Mich.,
30 miles northeast of the school.
"My grandparents were among a
small group of Russian Jews who set-
tled in Owosso during the late 1930s,"
Soffin wrote. "They read from that
Torah at services held on the second
floor of one of the family's places of
business. My family's auto parts store
was located in the same block."
The Jewish community of Owosso
later donated the Torah to MSU Hillel.
"The Jewish community there disband-
ed and the Torah is now a permanent
part of our possessions," Hughey says.
At Congregation Beth Shalom in
Oak Park, Rabbi David Nelson has a
special relationship with one specific
Torah because of its journeys.
"I've traveled with it," he says.
"When it needed to be repaired, I

Torah Travels

While most of the older Sifrei
Torah have traveled between syn-
agogues, sometimes they find
their way to other homes.
t om.
"Our main Torah in the shapel
Ari Kresch of Farmington Hills carries the Meer
was donated by Adat Shalom
Jewish Apartments Torah that honors his parents.
Synagogue," says Cindy Hughey,
Roz Bassin of West Bloomfield touches the Torah.
executive director of the
Michigan State University Hillel.
The Torah used at the Marvin and
wrapped it in a tallis and took it on a
Betty Danto Family Health Care
Northwest flight to Klein Brothers (a
Center in West Bloomfield was donat-
Brooklyn-based Torah supplier and
ed by the Saginaw Jewish community,
restoration company)."
and refurbished in honor of Danto
Rabbi Nelson says not only did the
resident Ira Boykansky.
flight staff react positively to having
Sometimes, Sifrei Torah become
the Torah on board; so did passengers.
available when synagogues close their
"The airline upgraded me," he says.
doors. "One of Shir Tikvah's Torahs
'And as people who were Jewish got
was acquired from Temple Beth Jacob
off the plane, they said it was the most
in Pontiac when they closed," says
serene, comfortable flight they had
Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg of
ever been on.
Congregation Shir Tikvah in Troy.
"They assumed that there were great
When Keter Torah Synagogue
powers associated with the Torah —
moved into its first building earlier in
and there were."
September, the West Bloomfield con-
The ttaveling Torah has become a •
gregation began reading from Sifrei
favorite among Simchat Torah syna-
Torah that had journeyed here from
gogue-goers at Beth Shalom. On the
various countries, including some
holiday, congregants take turns danc-
from the Middle East.
ing around the sanctuary seven times
Some Sifrei Torah come to their new with the congregation's Sefrei Torah.
homes without traveling very far. At
The reason this "traveling" Torah is
Congregation Shaarey Zedek B'nai
sought after is simple.
Israel Center in West Bloomfield, all
"It happens to be a slightly smaller,
the Sifrei Torah used came from B'nai
lighter Torah," says Rabbi David
Israel in Pontiac, during their merger.
Nelson. "We use it on a regular:basis

