In a lively and moving celebration May 21, 2009, coinciding with Jerusalem Day celebrations, the Levi family donated a Sefer Torah (Torah scroll) to the Shalom Hartman Institute
High School for Boys middle school (seventh and eighth grades).
The Sefer Torah was commissioned especially on the occasion of seventh grader Noam Levi’s bar mitzvah. The family, immigrants from France, held a similar celebration in Tsfat (Safed) earlier in the week, but the Sefer Torah was donated to the school, and is the first Sephardic Sefer Torah – in a traditional wooden "tik" (case) in the school’s possession.
