Stolen Antique Seforim Returned To BP Rabbi

More than a month after being robbed of dozens of antique seforim from his personal library, a Borough Park rabbi was reunited with the lost books, some of which were hundreds of years old.

As previously reported on VIN News (, thieves broke into the 12th Avenue home of Rabbi Meir Rokeach, the Kozlover Rebbe, in the early morning hours of April 2nd. Bypassing the first floor synagogue and its valuable Sifrei Torah, thieves headed to the basement where they broke through a locked door and looted the library which contained seforim that had been passed down through the family for generations.

Initial NYPD reports had placed the number of stolen seforim at nine, but Assemblyman Dov Hikind said today that the actual number was more than ten times that amount.

“There were 96 books that were taken,” Hikind told VIN News. “We got back four boxes of books today.”

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