Ark and Torah Added To Pentagon Chapel

In 2002, in the Pentagon, a chapel was built at the site where American Airlines Flight 77 hit the building on Sept. 11, 2001. The Pentagon Memorial Chapel was dedicated in memory of the individuals who lost their lives there on 9-11. Now the Chapel has a new addition to it. On Monday, The Jewish Press reported that a Torah scroll is now housed in an ornate Israeli-built ark in the Chapel. A dedication ceremony was held on September 26. Rabbi Andrew Cohen, who until recently served as chaplain at the Pentagon chapel, said that the Torah scroll will accommodate the needs of Jewish servicemen and officials at the Pentagon when prayer services may be held in the Chapel. The Aleph Institute, a national Jewish organization devoted to Jews in the military and in prisons obtained a donation for the ark and Torah scroll from the generous donor Yaakov Sopher.