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Ukrainian Jews win battle for Torah scroll

OCTOBER 27, 2013 01:45

The Kiev Central Synagogue won a legal battle against the Ukrainian state archive last week, enabling it to keep 300 Torah scrolls that it had obtained from Russia in 2011 nearly a century after the their confiscation.

The scrolls, which were taken by Soviet authorities in the 1920s, were demanded by the archive, leading to a lengthy legal battle between the local Jewish community and the state.

Following last week’s ruling, Alexander Levin, the president of the World Forum of Russian-speaking Jews and a community leader in Kiev, thanked Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych for his support.

The ruling, Levin said, is “proof that there is no state anti-Semitism in the Ukraine.”

The Jewish community is currently restoring the scrolls, which are in terrible condition following decades in Soviet, and later Russian, hands.

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