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April 16, 2004/Nisan 25 5764, Vol. 56, No. 30
Torah scroll memorializes terror victims
JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) attends a ceremony for the completion of a Torah scroll that Rabbi Moshe Klein inscribed. Also pictured, from left, are Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV); unidentified; Simon Jacobson (partially hidden), project co-founder; Carolyn Roiter, project co-founder; Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA).
Photo by Ron Sachs
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) talks about the impact of terrorism at a March 25 completion ceremony of a Torah scroll memorializing the victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and the victims of terror in Israel. The scribe, or sofer, Rabbi Moshe Klein inscribed letters of the Torah in honor of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate present at the ceremony. At least 60 senators and congressmen from both parties lined up in the Mansfield room in the Senate wing to have letters inscribed in their names by the Torah scribe.
"There is no stronger supporter of Israel than this body," said Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). The Torah, initiated under the aegis of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, includes a breastplate memorializing victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, and a cover featuring the more than 1,000 names of victims of terrorism.
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