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About Temple Shir Tikva

Temple Shir Tikva has approximately 600 member families, totaling more than 1,000 adults with young married couples at one end of the spectrum and both empty-nesters and grandparents at the other. We have about 450 school-age children, many preschoolers and a growing number of college students. Fifty percent of our members reside in Wayland. Other communities in which we live include Weston, Sudbury, Natick, Framingham, Lincoln, Concord, Sherborn, Boston and Newton.

The Holocaust Memorial
Torah Scroll

All that remains of the Jewish community of Jicin, Czechoslovakia, is its Torah scroll and the memories it evokes for all in our Shir Tikva community. The town of Jicin included a thriving Jewish community until the onslaught of the dark days of the Holocaust. During that reign of terror, Jicin's Jews, along with so many others, were murdered. Somehow, the community's Torah scroll survived and was salvaged by the Westminster synagogue in London. Several hundred other sacred scrolls survived in similar fashion, to be protected and repaired by the Jews of London.

Temple Shir Tikva is the inheritor of Jicin's scroll, estimated to be more than 80-years-old. We are also the inheritors of Jicin's legacy - a community of learning, of sharing, and of celebration. Shir Tikva's memorial Torah scroll is a permanent link between our new Jewish community and our Jewish past. Its living progress in our Aron Kodesh reflects the ongoing vitality of our Jewish Heritage and our commitment to enhance our past and add to its strength in our day.

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