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Berger Family gift to Chabad:

The Torah that escaped destruction twice

By Stan Roberts

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...