Angela Merkel participates in historic Torah scroll writing ceremony
The 18th century Sulzbacher Torah, which survived the National Socialist Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938 and lay unnoticed for decades in a cabinet in a synagogue in Amberg, Bavaria, was brought back
The Torah scroll found in a wooden shack in the Lodz Ghetto. (photo credit: SHEM OLAM)ByTOBY AXELROD/JTA