Over a dozen Torah scrolls stolen from synagogue in Paris suburb

Over a dozen Torah scrolls were stolen from the Grand Synagogue of Levallois-Perret, a wealthy Paris suburb, between Sunday night and Monday morning. Rabbi Chalom Lellouche and local Jewish community president Philippe Cohen described the incident as an "antisemitic act that specifically targeted the Torah," noting that "nothing else was stolen apart from Torah items of immeasurable value." Levallois Mayor Agnès Pottier-Dumas and the des Hauts-de-Seine prefecture condemned the theft, with the prefecture stating that "an entire community of believers that was wounded to the depths of its soul." Police are investigating, and officials have promised to identify the thieves and secure the return of the scrolls. Cohen characterized the burglary as the work of a "professional team" that bypassed security systems.