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…Special Report REPAYING A VISIT Rabbi Sleutelberg, reading from the donated Torah alongside Cantor Jalda Rebling Die Rolle Aus Amerika ••• (The Torah Scroll From America ) Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberq Special to the Jewish News A fter deciding to commission the writing of a new Torah, the Board of Trustees of Congregation Shir Tikvah in Troy decided to share our good fortune by passing forward a Torah that had been gifted to us by Temp...…
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