Kansas congregation donates Torah to Sandy-flooded LI synagogue
Photo credit: David Pokress | Congregation Kehilath Israel of Kansas City, Kansas donated a Torah scroll to Congregation Ahavas Yisroel of Woodmere to replace a scroll that was damaged during Hurricane Sandy. (Dec. 4, 2012)
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For the members of Sandy-flooded Congregation Ahavas Yisrael in Cedarhurst, salvation came from above -- via Kansas.
The members of the small synagogue all made it through superstorm Sandy, but the same couldn't be said of the synagogue's next most-precious resource: its four sacred Torah scrolls, which had been under 4 feet of water, rendering them unusable.
So a synagogue in suburban...
