Posted on 03/24/2016 12:34:59 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
After 19 Jews were airlifted out of wartorn Yemen in a secret operation on Sunday, bringing with them an 800-year-old Torah scroll, a Jewish man still in Yemen has been jailed on charges of helping "smuggle" the ancient Torah, according to reports.
The Jewish Chronicle on Thursday said it has learned that in addition to the Jew, a Muslim airport worker was also arrested, and accused of deliberately letting the community's rabbi leave with the Torah scroll which Yemeni lawmakers consider to be the property of Yemen, even though it is a religious artifact of the ancient Jewish community. Israeli-American businessman Moti Kahana, who works to rescue Jews from danger zones in the Middle East, was quoted by the Jewish Chronicle as saying there are fears the Jew is being tortured in prison after having been arrested.
"When I saw the scroll in the media I knew the Yemenite government would complain – they would say that international law was broken," he said.
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[ The Jewish Chronicle on Thursday said it has learned that in addition to the Jew, a Muslim airport worker was also arrested, and accused of deliberately letting the community’s rabbi leave with the Torah scroll which Yemeni lawmakers consider to be the property of Yemen, even though it is a religious artifact of the ancient Jewish community. ]
I highly doubt the scroll will end up in a Yemeni museum, instead it will end up on a Yemeni Bonfire....
Yumping Yemini.
this Torah is now safe & secure IN ISRAEL
where it belongs ; in the care of the JEWISH STATE
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me. ..................
Commendable act.
Prayers up for the arrested Jewish man.
Yumping Bamiyan Buddhas?
I agree.
...and the Muslim who aided him. They’ll probably both end up murdered, if they haven’t been already.
“Sh’ma Yisrael: Adonai elohenu. Adonai echad!”
Sobering .. But, of course, Obola and his AIPAC liberal democrat supporters claim that Christians (and Jews) are NOT being persecuted in the MidEast. Well, not by any organized government. Right? /sarchasm
“Baruch atah Adonai?...
Thus, for my Hebrew, but that I love Torah.
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