By Luke Fox
A CRICKET club official turned detective as he recovered a set of stolen scrolls and returned them to their rightful place in a north London synagogue.
The Shir Hayim Reform congregation in Hampstead had their Sefer Torah – a handwritten copy of the Torah, the holiest book in Judaism – stolen from a locked cabinet during a burglary at the home of rabbis Jackie and Larry Tabick back in March.
But Rufus Francis, the welfare officer at Bentley Heath CC, found the holy scrolls in the grounds of the club and reunited them with synagogue, who held a special Shabbat service...