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Chabad House to Hold Rally to Locate Stolen Torah

JTA

Rabbi Benzion Chanowitz shows the empty cabinet where the Torah was stolen from.

A New York state synagogue is holding a rally to help locate a stolen Torah. The handwritten Sefer Torah and $200 in cash were found to be missing on Saturday after a break-in at the Landfield Avenue Synagogue in Monticello, NY.

Weekly Living Torah Video: G-d’s Roadmap

Code of Jewish Law, Laws of Shabbos, Chapter 329: If non-Jews besiege a Jewish border town — whether in the Holy Land or in the Diaspora — stating that they come only to pilfer straw, Jews are obligated to arm themselves for war, even on Shabbos, because such an intrusion opens up the entire Jewish land to attack.

5 Sholom Zochors This Week!

Mendel and Shani (nee Thaler) Benish
1398 Union St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.]

Dovid and Chana Keila (nee Krasnjanski) Cohen
1532 President St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.]

Bentzion and Sarah Chaya Elisha
808 Eastern Parkway [between Kingston and Albany Ave.] Apt. 3

Moishy and Chaya Mushka Katz
713 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]

Yossi and Esti (nee Liberow) Bryski