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Berger Family gift to Chabad: The Torah that escaped destruction twice

When Jacquelyn Berger, Ph.D., along with her son Jeffrey and his family and daughter Marni Stahlman and her family, expressed a desire to acquire a Torah with a history of Jewish survival for Chabad of Greater Orlando, little did they dream their search would uncover a Torah buried by a rabbi to prevent its inevitable destruction by Nazis in the darkest days of the Holocaust.

Dr. Berger feels that donating this Torah is a means to give a legacy of inspiration and joy to her family and way of showing the many ways that Rabbi Sholom Dubov and Chabad has brought joy and peace into her life. "As a...

 
 

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