There is a severe shortage of Torah scrolls in the Israeli Army, according to chaplains serving in the field. To help ameliorate the problem, the National Council of Young Israel has called on all American Jewish communities and synagogues to donate unused Torah scrolls. Army Chaplain Captain Yedidya Atlas says, \"In response to the terrorist attacks over the past ten months, many more security checkpoints and guard posts have been established by the Israeli army. Each of these positions which have ten soldiers or more assigned to them needs a Torah scroll so that the soldiers can benefit from full daily and Sabbath prayer services, without having to go far from their posts.\"
The first group of Torah scrolls, from Sinai Temple in Los Angeles and the Kaminetzky family in the New York area, were presented on Monday in the presence of the IDF Chief Rabbi, Brig.-Gen. Yisrael Weiss, along with senior IDF commanders and other dignitaries. Hundreds of soldiers and local residents sang and danced the scrolls into the newly-renovated central synagogue of the IDF Binyamin Brigade. Young Israel\'s Rabbi Pesach Lerner will be delivering another Torah scroll to the IDF on Thursday.
The first group of Torah scrolls, from Sinai Temple in Los Angeles and the Kaminetzky family in the New York area, were presented on Monday in the presence of the IDF Chief Rabbi, Brig.-Gen. Yisrael Weiss, along with senior IDF commanders and other dignitaries. Hundreds of soldiers and local residents sang and danced the scrolls into the newly-renovated central synagogue of the IDF Binyamin Brigade. Young Israel\'s Rabbi Pesach Lerner will be delivering another Torah scroll to the IDF on Thursday.