The MST was delighted to welcome a half-term group of adults and children from the Community Association at the Abbey Centre in Westminster for a tour of the museum, and the opportunity to get to know each other over some refreshments. At the instigation of Tania Faraj from the Health and Wellbeing Project, and…
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Corona del Mar residents Aviva and Fredric Forster stopped by the MST Museum today for a visit during their 4 days in London. The MST is often honoured by visits from North American tourists whose hometown synagogues are guardians of a Czech Scroll. This visit, however, was particularly special. Fred explained that the trip to…
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It’s only a few days until the LAMOTH event. Just in, this photo of MST #115 at Beth Chayim Chadashim taken Sun 4/17/16 inside the LA Museum of the Holocaust main exhibition, in the section “The World That Was,” when Rabbi Lisa Edwards, alongside BCC members Sylvia, Davi and Bracha, dropped off BCC’s Holocaust survivor…
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Susan Boyer has sent us the following message: We are pleased to announce that Temple Beth El of Hollywood in conjunction with the Memorial Scrolls Trust is hosting Florida’s first ever Holocaust Torah Reunion. This weekend long event will take place on February 12 – 14, 2016. The events of the weekend have been…
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The MST recently received the following report from North West Surrey Synagogue that tells of their Czech Scrolls Memorial Service and the visit of the MST Travelling Exhibition. With thanks for all their hard work, and that hope that it will inspire you to emulate them: “What a wonderful service on October 17th to remember…
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Students from HaMakom, the pluralistic religion school that serves the communities of Mosaic (Mosaic Liberal, formerly Harrow & Wembley Progressive; Mosaic Reform, formerly Middlesex New & Hatch End Masorti) and Kol Chai Hatch End Jewish Community, came to Kent House to hear the story of the Czech Scrolls and learn more about the torah scrolls…
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MST Chair Jeffrey Ohrenstein has just returned from a weekend in Sharon MA where he attended a siyum for the repair of our scroll MST #655 from Prestice, on loan to Temple Sinai for the last 26 years. Westminster Synagogue is also the holder of a scroll from Prestice,and in his role as Chair of…
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The Memorial Scrolls Trust is thrilled to report that our orphan scroll MST #310 was officially handed over on loan to West London Synagogue on the 18th of March, 2015. Rabbi David Mitchell and Wendy Pollecoff Woolf collected the scroll from the MST Museum and transported it carefully to the synagogue sanctuary. MST #310 previously…
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Bookings for the MST Travelling Exhibition are starting to come in. The Chief Rabbi and the CEO of Liberal Judaism were among those adding their support at the launch. Across the spectrum of British Judaism, if you would like to feature our portable, easily-installed, travelling version of the story of the Czech Scrolls in your synagogue or…
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The Memorial Scrolls Trust was privileged to be part of the London 2015 itinerary for the Association of European Jewish Museum’s Advanced Curatorial Programme. At the invitation of Joanne Rosenthal from the Jewish Museum of London, 24 people from 14* countries learned about the work of the MST from Evelyn Friedlander and Rabbi Ariel J Friedlander.…
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