Funeral held for Torah scrolls ruined by superstorm
Experts had tried but failed to repair damage
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Torah scrolls unfurled and drying post-Sandy at Mazel Day School in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach neighborhood (photo credit: Facebook/JTA)
JTA — A funeral was held in New York Sunday for 12 Torah scrolls that were destroyed in Superstorm Sandy.
Some 1,000 rabbis and members of more than 45 synagogues attended the ceremony outside Congregation Kneseth Israel, familiarly known as the White Shul, in Far Rockaway, Queens. The buried scrolls were from synagogues in Queens and on Long Island.
Several experts reportedly could not repair the damage to the scrolls.
The scrolls were not buried last October in the aftermath of the storm, according to the Jewish Press newspaper, because rabbinic leaders believed the Jewish community would not have been able to internalize how deep the tragedy was because of their other losses.
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