Tip to Misaskim Leads to Sefer Torah’s Recovery
News of a stolen sefer Torah had made it to the wire services early Monday afternoon, with Assemblyman Dov Hikind offering a reward of $30,000 for its safe return.
The sefer Torah was inside a car reported stolen Motzoei Shabbos in Brooklyn from outside Congregation Agudath Shalom of Flatbush, at the corner of 18th and Coney Island Avenues, in Kensington. Police described the car as a gray 2007 Toyota Corolla.
Later Monday afternoon, someone called an anonymous phone tip in to Misaskim’s 24-hour hotline, giving the car’s location as East 10th Street between Avenue I and the dead end. Misaskim staffmembers went over and, indeed, the car was there.
They opened the trunk and found that the sefer Torah was there unharmed, a source at the organization told Hamodia.
After making the positive identification, Misaskim called the NYPD.
“Baruch Hashem, it came to a happy conclusion,” Yanky Meyer, Executive Director of Misaskim, told Hamodia. “The sefer Torah is going to be returned to its rightful owner. Thank G-d it was nothing worse than that.”
As we went to press, the New York City Police Department had not been updated as to the discovery and was unable to confirm it.
This article appeared in print on page 1 of edition of Hamodia.
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