Congregation Bamidbar Shel Ma’alah in Victorville, California, was founded in 1978 and affiliated with the Reform Jewish movement that same year. As a new, very small congregation, there was limited ability to purchase a Torah Scroll. Then Congregation President Bill Rodman reached out to Memorial Scrolls Trust (MST) located in Knightsbridge, London UK (www.memorialscrollstrust.org), about obtaining a Torah Scroll on permanent loan. In July of 1979, Bill Rodman took receipt of Czech Memorial Scroll MST#742 upon its arrival at Los Angeles International Airport on a British Airways flight.