An �expensive� Sefer Torah was stolen from the Erlau Beis Medrash in Yerushalayim�s Katamon neighborhood on the night between the first and second days of Rosh Hashanah. The Sefer Torah was on the street level of the beis medrash, where a minyan was being held on yomtov for the youth, towards alleviating some of the overcrowded conditions in the main beis medrash.

The gabbaim have filed a report with police and have decided to publicize the theft in the hope of alerting people should the thief try to sell it.

(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)