About Our Czech Torah

In keeping with the provisions of the loan of our Torah, Beth Am Temple would like to share with you the details of its origin from Memorial Scrolls Trust.

An exerpt from Memorial Scrolls Trust: Jews have lived in Bohemia and Moravia for more than a thousand years, and over that time a rich Jewish culture developed.  As in most European countries, those Jewish communities were alternatively welcomed and expelled over the centuries and life was precarious. By the middle of the 19th Century they no longer suffered from residential, demographic or occupational restrictions. Read more

Please click here, www.memorialscrollstrust.org to be taken to the page about Memorial Trust Organization that sponsors our Torah. 

Here is an excerpt from the Service introducing the new Holocaust Torah.  Rabbi Dan tells the story of how the Torah came to Beth Am Temple.

"Czech Torah Webpage" Project

The aim of this project is to link over 1000 Torah Scroll holders to the MST and to each other, ensuring their Torah scrolls remain identified, their location known, visitors to their site will learn about the special legacy of these survivors and witnesses of the Shoah and most importantly, they will never be forgotten.