California synagogue returning Torah scroll to Czech Olomouc

A parchment scroll of Torah dating from 1880 will be returned to Olomouc's prayer room as a permanent loan from the Jewish community in Foster City, California, at the end of October, Petr Papousek, chairman of Olomouc's Jewish community, said on Monday. It will be the first Torah returned out of the 1,500 Bohemian and Moravian scrolls that are stored outside the Czech Republic nowadays, he said.