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Having trouble with vision, rabbi created a Braille Torah
PITTSBURGH Rabbi Lenny Sarko had a problem that was threatening to derail his career.After spending years as an environmental scientist creating recycling systems for corporations nationwide, Rabbi Sarko realized he was done with all the travel and decided to pursue a job related to his one true passion: Judaism.
by Joshua Axelrod
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (TNS)
Jun. 26 2021 @ 11:05pm Rabbi Leonard Sarko, of Congregation Emanu-El Israel, holds a Sefer Torah done in braille Tuesday, June 8, 2021, at the Congregation Emanu-El Israel in Greensburg. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS)
PITTSBURGH Rabbi Lenny Sarko had a problem that was threatening to derail his career.
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Rabbi Lenny Sarko of Congregation Emanu-El Israel in Greensburg lost some of his vision for a time due to diabetes. That motivated him to create a Braille Sefer Torah.
The late Shulamit Bastecky spent decades telling the story of her life, one filled with tragedy, miracles and hope. She told it so that young people would know, and she told it so that it wonât happen again.
Bastecky, who passed away in January at the age of 79, survived the Holocaust with the help of a nun who hid her in a crib in a basement.
On Wednesday evening, she was honored at the Yom HaShoah Holocaust Memorial service held at the Congregation Emanu-El Israel in Greensburg, which co-sponsored the virtual program with Seton Hill Universityâs National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education.
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The Yom HaShoah Holocaust Memorial program can be viewed online. Login information: Congregation Emanu-El Israel s website, www.ceigreensburg.org. Congreagation Emanu-El Isrel uses www.gotomeeting.com for its video conferencing.
Source: Congregation Emanu-El Israel
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Although the Holocaust ended 76 years ago with the Allied liberation of Nazi Germany concentration camps where some 6 million Jews were killed, the Yom HaShoah Holocaust Memorial program on Wednesday at Congregation Emanu-El Israel in Greensburg is another opportunity to remind people anti-Semitism did not die in the ruins left behind by the Nazis.