USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) Commanding Officer, Capt. Herman Shelanski, left, and Michigan Senator Carl Levin (D), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, bow their heads in prayer at the commencement of the Torah dedication ceremony in the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier's hangar bay, June 24. The holy Jewish Torah in the background, one of the few scrolls from Lithuania to survive the Holocaust, was presented to Truman by the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, and will be on loan to Truman and displayed for 41 years, or the duration of the ship's life. The smaller Torah in the foreground, known as the Truman Torah, was presented to President Harry S. Truman by Israel's first President, Chaim Weizmann in gratitude for America's diplomatic recognition of the state of Israel in 1948.
| Date Taken: | 06.24.2007 |
| Date Posted: | 08.13.2007 15:32 |
| Photo ID: | 53677 |
| VIRIN: | 070624-N-5345W-072 |
| Resolution: | 2100x1723 |
| Size: | 348.06 KB |
| Location: | NORFOLK, VA, US |
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