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The Oldest Copy of the Hebrew Bible Is Headed to Auction This Spring
By Jackie Hajdenberg (JTA) — The oldest complete copy of the Hebrew Bible as we know it today is about to go on sale — and it could well become the most expensive book or document ever sold. Written by a single Jewish scribe on 400 pages of parchment about 1,100 years ago, the Codex Sassoon…
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Volunteers Knit 15,000 Blankets for Hospitalized Children
By Sara Schreibman, Yours Truly Needlepoint Volunteer Lynn Edelstein received all-too-familiar phone calls last week from area children’s hospitals. They needed more than 150 blankets for their patients, and Lynn and Yours Truly Needlepoint are the source for these knitted and crocheted blankets. Lynn called all her contacts and was almost able to fill the…
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Remembering Rabbi Steven Sager, a “Leader, Mentor, Poet’ in North Carolina and Beyond
(JTA) May 19, 2022 — When his local Jewish magazine asked Rabbi Nick Renner earlier this year to explain how he decided to become a rabbi, he immediately attributed the decision to his hometown rabbi, Steven Sager.
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Moishe House Celebrates Importance of Flexibility in Global Community Building With Second Virtual Training Conference
On August 22, Moishe House, the world’s leader in engaging Jewish young adults around the world, recognized the achievements of its global community builders during their annual resident training conference, currently dubbed CouchCon because of its virtual nature for the second year in a row.
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No Act is More American or More Jewish Than Welcoming the Stranger
This July 28 will mark the 70th anniversary of the signing of the 1951 International Refugee Convention, which is the key legal document (along with its 1967 Protocol) that defines a refugee as a person with a well-founded fear of persecution “because of reasons of race, religion, national origin
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Dutch Museum Will Pay $240K to Owners of Nazi-Looted Painting It Won’t Return
A Dutch museum will compensate the rightful owners of a Nazi-looted painting the government said it could keep because displaying it would benefit the public interest. Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle has agreed to give $240,000 to the descendants of Jewish Holocaust victims who under duress sold the 1635 painting
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