After being buried in a Jewish cemetery in Nazi-occupied Hungary, a family Torah is about to complete a remarkable journey to Sydney.
The Central Synagogue, at Bondi Junction, in Sydney’s east, will soon receive its first pre-Holocaust Torah, the final leg of a journey managed by property developer Danny Avidan.
The Torah will be flown from Israel to Sydney by his sister, Dorit Avidan Eldar, and her husband, leading Israeli journalist Akiva Eldar.
Before it is taken on to the plane it will have been carefully wrapped under the guidance of a rabbi.
In 1934 in Budapest, Mr Avidan’s grandfather, Haim Yacov Meir Bialazurker, was given a Torah by his 10 children to mark his 60th birthday.
Read the full article by John Lyons at The Weekend Australian.