The World Values Network, a Jewish organization headed by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, will be dedicating a Torah scroll to the people of Rwanda during its annual gala on Sunday evening in New York.
The scroll, which will bear the name of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, who passed away last year, is intended to later be brought to the country’s capital, Kigali, and be placed at a Jewish center, that the World Values Networks is planning on opening there.
“This stems from my deep love and friendship for the people of Rwanda,” Rabbi Boteach, who visited the country several times, told The Jerusalem Post.
During his visits, Boteach learned a lot about the 1994 Rwandan genocide and met with officials, including President Paul Kagame, whom he describes as “a phenomenal friend of Israel.”