Hawaii - Governor Helps Rededicate Torah

Hawaii - Governor Lingle was on the Big Island attending the rededication of Congregation Kona Bes Shalom's 350-year-old Torah.
Lingle and members of the congregation, under the guidance of Rabbi Moishe Druin, were asked to write in a letter as the final part of the ancient scroll's restoration.

The Torah once belonged to the congregation in Polna, Czechoslovakia. It was among the more than 15-hundred confiscated by the Nazis during World War Two.
The Nazis arrived in Polna in 1943. All 93 Jews in the town were rounded up, taken away and never seen again.

Their names and ages -- between four months and 90 years -- were read aloud as the Torah was passed from member to member.