torah scrolls

Tells the story of 1,564 Torahs stolen by Nazis from synagogues in Czechoslovakia, rescued twenty years later, and placed in the hands of people who love them.

A small Torah scroll passes from a Dutch rabbi, to a Bar Mitzvah boy during the Holocaust, to the first Israeli astronaut.

Fifteen-year-old Aviva travels to Istanbul to vacation with her mother, but when she arrives to find her mother missing, Vivi must trust an Arab girl, as well as her own knowledge of Torah, to unravel the mystery.

Explains what a synagogue is, discusses the Torah and its importance to the Jewish faith, looks at the observance of Shabbat, and introduces related vocabulary words.