Sinai Congregation, Executive Board Minutes
November 27, 1911
Dr. Hirsch explained that the Sephar Thorah had been forgotten by Mr. Adler, the architect, when the old Temple had been remodeled, and that it had not been designedly abandoned; that it was the distinctive sign of a Jewish Temple and its presence was not in any sense a symbol of orthodoxy; and he recommended strongly that it be restored in the new Temple.
