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135-year-old Torah restored at Calvary Hospital

A scroll that survived the Holocaust has been restored and is ready for prayer. Experts took the 100-foot-long Torah and restored its more than 300,000 characters over the past year to make it suitable

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Nov 10, 2016, 3:11 AM

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