In Kehilat Shalom’s and Rabbi Charles Arian’s case, that item was a Torah scroll estimated to be from the 1950s. “We recently sold our building, and we’re not going to have space to properly and honorably store the six Torahs we have once we move,” said Lori Wasserman, Kehilat Shalom’s immediate past president. Meanwhile, the members of Beth Etz Chaim in Leipzig, Germany, had longed for a Torah scroll of their own for years, according to reporting by journalist Daniela Rusowsky. Beth Etz Chaim’s Rabbi Esther Jonas-Maertin explained the kehillah’s story in a letter sent through a Rabbinical Assembly affinity group. The Wassermans flew into Leipzig on July 30 and brought the bubble-wrapped, boxed Torah to Beth Etz Chaim on July 31: “It was very exciting.”