In this Wednesday, May 30, 2018, Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin, the leader of Cyprus' 3,500-strong Jewish community, looks at Torah scrolls including two that were stolen by the Nazis in WW2 and recovered by the Soviet Red Army, at a synagogue in Cyprus' Jewish Community Center in the town of Larnaca. The scrolls will be put on display in a new museum on the eastern Mediterranean island-nation that its founders envision as a bridge-builder to the Arab world and beyond, a place where visitors who may never set foot in Israel can learn about the Jewish faith, the Holocaust and the tumultuous beginnings of the Jewish state. Photo: Petros Karadjias, AP / Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
In this Wednesday, May 30, 2018, Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin, the leader of Cyprus' 3,500-strong Jewish community, puts on a tallit, or prayer shawl, at a synagogue in Cyprus' Jewish Community Center in the town of Larnaca, as he prepares to handle two rare Torah scrolls that were stolen by the Nazis in WW2 and recovered by the Soviet Red Army. The scrolls will be put in an exhibition in a new museum on the eastern Mediterranean island-nation that its founders envision as a bridge-builder to the Arab world and beyond, a place where visitors who may never set foot in Israel can learn about the Jewish faith, the Holocaust and the tumultuous beginnings of the Jewish state. Photo: Petros Karadjias, AP / Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
In this Wednesday, May 30, 2018, Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin, the leader of Cyprus' 3,500-strong Jewish community, reaches for two rare Torah scrolls that were stolen by the Nazis in WW2 and recovered by the Soviet Red Army, at a synagogue in Cyprus' Jewish Community Center in the town of Larnaca. The scrolls will be put in an exhibition in a new museum on the eastern Mediterranean island-nation that its founders envision as a bridge-builder to the Arab world and beyond, a place where visitors who may never set foot in Israel can learn about the Jewish faith, the Holocaust and the tumultuous beginnings of the Jewish state. Photo: Petros Karadjias, AP / Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
In this Wednesday, May 30, 2018, Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin, the leader of Cyprus' 3,500-strong Jewish community, holds a Yad or traditional Jewish pointer used to read the Torah, Judaism's holiest book, at a synagogue inside Cyprus' Jewish Community Center in the town of Larnaca. The scrolls will be put on display in a new museum on the eastern Mediterranean island-nation that its founders envision as a bridge-builder to the Arab world and beyond, a place where visitors who may never set foot in Israel can learn about the Jewish faith, the Holocaust and the tumultuous beginnings of the Jewish state. Photo: Petros Karadjias, AP / Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
In this Wednesday, May 30, 2018, Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin, the leader of Cyprus' 3,500-strong Jewish community, gestures toward Torah scrolls, Judaism's holiest book, at a synagogue inside Cyprus' Jewish Community Center in the town of Larnaca. The scrolls will be put on exhibit in a new museum on the eastern Mediterranean island-nation that its founders envision as a bridge-builder to the Arab world and beyond, a place where visitors who may never set foot in Israel can learn about the Jewish faith, the Holocaust and the tumultuous beginnings of the Jewish state. Photo: Petros Karadjias, AP / Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
In this Wednesday, May 30, 2018, Rabbi Arie Zeev Raskin, the leader of Cyprus' 3,500-strong Jewish community, holds a rare 200 year-old Torah scroll that comes from Germany at a Synagogue inside Cyprus' Jewish Community Center in the town of Larnaca. The scrolls will be put on exhibit in a new museum on the eastern Mediterranean island-nation that its founders envision as a bridge-builder to the Arab world and beyond, a place where visitors who may never set foot in Israel can learn about the Jewish faith, the Holocaust and the tumultuous beginnings of the Jewish state. Photo: Petros Karadjias, AP / Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.