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The Kolin Torah

Rabbi Yales dedication of the Torah in 1972

There are many interesting website links. Here are a few:

http://www.czechmemorialscrollstrust.org/index.htm --This site has lots of information about the origins of the scrolls, their age, how they were restored and where they are now.

http://www.czechtorah.org/home.php --This is the site of the Czech Torah Network, which has a wide variety of information about the scrolls and lots of sources for further investigation

http://npls.org.uk/Czech%20Slovak%20Scroll%20booklet.pdf –This is a booklet put together by the Northwood & Pinner Liberal Synagogue about scrolls from Kolin and other places in the region. It has information about the communities and some great pictures, too.

http://www.bnaitikvah.org/kolintorah.html --This site is from a conservative congregation in New Jersey that also has a Kolin scroll

http://data.ccarnet.org/cgi-bin/respdisp.pl?file=3&year=5760 –This is a response written by the Central Conference of American Rabbis, addressing the question of whether it is kosher to read from a damage holocaust scroll

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