300 tons of garbage searched for NYC congregant’s scrolls
FAIRPORT, N.Y. — Members of a New York City synagogue have sifted through 300 tons of garbage at an upstate landfill in an unsuccessful search for a religious item that fell into a trash can.
Dozens of synagogue members were bused upstate to search at High Acres Landfill for an embroidered bag containing a congregant’s tefillin (teh-FIHL’-ihn), which are parchment scrolls inscribed with verses from the Torah. A surveillance camera showed the bag tumbling from a cubby into a garbage can last week.