Englewood synagogue rededicates a 200-year-old Torah
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- Scenes from the dedication — here, the Torah comes home. Steve Niederman, left, with Barry Kaplan, Alan Arenson, Cliff Stein, Rabbi Ethan Linden, Tamar Appel, Burt Appel, Steve Haber, Mayer Rabinowitz, and Phyllis Gordon
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- The Torah, under a chuppah, parades past BergenPAC. Francine Esrig, Jackie Stern, Alan Arenson, Rabbi Linden, Debbie Berman, Hannah Berman, Cliff Stein
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- From left, Kol HaNeshamah’s president, Alan Arenson, and Rabbi Ethan Linden hold the old/new sefer Torah.
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- Congregants read from the shul’s new Torah for the first time. Cliff Stein, Toby Reifman, and Barry Kaplan
Sunday, April 6, Congregation Kol HaNeshamah of Englewood celebrated as it dedicated a Torah. The scroll was a gift from Lincoln Park Jewish Center of Yonkers. The transfer was arranged by Miriam Pomerantz, a long-time member of Kol HaNeshamah who grew up in the Lincoln Park shul and whose parents were active members for many years. Now, Lincoln Park is closing, and its board decided to donate the Torah to Kol HaNeshama.
According to Linda Coppleson, a soferet who inspected and restored the scroll, the Torah appears to be at least 200 years old. It’s been in the ark in Lincoln Park, which was founded in 1938, through almost all of its history.
At the dedication, Rabbi Ethan Linden and members of the Kol HaNeshamah and Lincoln Park congregations walked, sang, and danced with the Torah from City Hall in Englewood to Kol HaNeshamah.
Congregation Kol HaNeshamah is a Conservative egalitarian synagogue that meets on the campus of St. Paul in Englewood. For more information, go to KHNJ.ORG, email info@KHNJ.org, or call 201 816-1611.
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