In 1978 , the congregation elected a Board of Directors , and began holding weekly worship services , using rented spaces in Washington , D.C . The following year , the congregation received a Torah Scroll , rescued from The Holocaust , on permanent loan from the Westminster Synagogue in London . The scroll ( a '' Sefer Torah '' , in Hebrew ) once belonged to a small 500-year-old Jewish community in Dolní Kounice , a town destroyed in 1940 , in the former Czechoslovakia
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
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