Appointed Times, 15 October 2024
A story by Barnett R. Rubin that starts as follows:
In November 2008 I was contacted by intermediaries of the Kabuli Jewish community in New York. They asked me to find the Torah Scroll that had been missing from the Kabul Synagogue on Chicken Street since 1997. I had heard of this incident: at that time there were two Jews living there. They got in a dispute about the Torah, with one of them wanting to send it to Israel. The Taliban detained both of them and confiscated the scroll, as well as other valuables. The representatives of the Kabuli Jews asked me to help find the scroll.
They provided me with a copy of the receipt, signed by Mullah Muhammad Khairullah Khairkhwah, who was minister of the interior at the time and is now acting minister of information and culture in the Taliban interim government.
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This article was last updated on 18 Oct 2024
