Friday, August 26, 2011

Rabbi Indicted In Torah Scam - The Washington Post

Rabbi Indicted In Torah Scam - The Washington Post
Well, this was a bad thing to do. I remember reading about this guy a few years ago: he claimed to have criss-crossed Europe, digging up Torah scrolls that had been trashed or hidden during World War II. He then restored these scrolls and found homes for them in synagogues. He soliticed a couple of million dollars from donors to support this project. Trouble is, there was no project, no rescued Torahs, no Indiana-Jones-like exploits. Just money going into his bank account. (Unfortunately, a little research could have saved people a lot of money: He claimed to have found a scroll under the floorboards at Bergen-Belsen--but those barracks were burned at the end of the war. No floorboards exist.)

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