A yad or pointer is used to keep the place of the reader as they read a 200 year old Torah at the University of Arizona. Beth Nakhai, an associate professor in the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, received the scroll in 2009. On Feb. 10 and 11, a rabbi will do restoration work on the document. Photo taken: Tuesday February 03, 2015.
The University of Arizona's Arizona Center for Judaic Studies will sponsor a bake sale 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14. on the east side of the Louise Foucar Marshall building, 845 N. Park Ave.
The center's Modern Hebrew Program will sell goodies to benefit Syrian children through the Syrian American Medical Society Foundation, according to press materials.
For more information about the center, visit judaic.arizona.edu or call 626-5758.
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