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Rachel Spitzer holds a torah scroll on the porch of the family's Woodbluff cottage, Szombathély. Several torahs were on the Island for Rosh Hashanah services in September. A torah scroll is a handwritten parchment document that contains the original Bible and the five books of Moses, which are written in the original Hebrew. They have been copied by scribes, one to another, for thousands of years. A reading from a scroll will take place during Miss Spitzer's Bat Mitzvah October 20. (Photograph by Dr. Robert Spitzer)