Thieves stole two Torah schools valued at more than $100,000 from a Kenosha, Wisconsin synagogue, shortly before the beginning of the Passover holiday. Other synagogues offered to lend Torah scrolls for the reading of the Torah on the Sabbath and Passover holiday.

The scrolls belonged to the Bnei Tzedek Congregation and were at least 60 years old, synagogue president Ron Sanders said. The thieves also stole a laptop computer belonging to the synagogue's rabbi. Sanders suspect the thieves entered the building while the rabbi was leading a Torah study class at night and then hid until he left. He said the thieves will have a difficult time selling the scrolls because "we've already contacted every Jewish network in Chicago and elsewhere."