BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Hundreds of community members took to the streets in the middle-class Colegiales neighborhood of Buenos Aires to welcome a new Torah scroll given to the local Chabad-Lubavitch center directed by Rabbi Eli and Devorah Leah Levy.
New Torah Scroll Evidence of Buenos Aires Community’s Growth
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Hundreds of community members took to the streets in the middle-class Colegiales neighborhood of Buenos Aires to welcome a new Torah scroll given to the local Chabad-Lubavitch center directed by Rabbi Eli and Devorah Leah Levy.
Donated by Roberto and Zully Goldfarb, the Torah represented the conclusion of a campaign begun just after the Jewish New Year.
During Rosh Hashanah services last fall, Levy, whose two-year-old Beit Jabad Colegiales provides a wealth of activities to the area’s Jewish residents, announced that raising money for a Torah would be a top priority.
“Everyone was excited with the idea of having a Torah scroll,” he related.
Three days after the announcement, friend Dan Goldfarb – who had not heard of the new effort – called to say that he was getting married. His parents wished to donate a Torah scroll to a worthy Jewish community in honor of his and wife-to-be Carolina’s nuptials.
