New Torah in Brooklyn Heights

Congregation B’nai Avraham, the Orthodox shul in Brooklyn Heights, welcomed a new Torah last Sunday.

After a scribe finished the last three verses on the site of the Brooklyn Heights Jewish Academy, a new day school scheduled to open next year near Brooklyn Bridge Park, the scroll was paraded through the Brownstone neighborhood to the shul at 117 Remsen St., carried under a chuppah by its donor, civil rights attorney Sanford Rubenstein.

“The ambiance of a new Torah is tantamount to hearing the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai,” said B’nai Avraham’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Aaron Raskin.