Ukraine - Ukrainian Jewish leaders are demanding the return of all Torah scrolls currently stored in state museums and archives.
The call was issued during this week during a news conference in Kiev.
Leaders of the Chabad-run Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine, or FJC, the country’s leading Jewish religious umbrella organization, said Wednesday that claims by Ukrainian archives officials that the community mishandled several Torahs lent to it by the state have been proven groundless.
FJC cited the opinion of a board of experts at the Kiev Research Institute for Legal Expertise who ruled last month that the Torahs in question did not carry any "traces of recent damage or restoration." [jta]
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