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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 Arizona Center for Judaic Studies fall lecture series kicks off 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12 at the University of Arizona Hillel Foundation, 1245 E. Second St.
The first lecture in the free Sally and Ralph Duchin lecture series, presented by Professor Asher Susser, is "Middle Eastern Secularism, Islamism and Sectarianism: A Brief History of Ideas and Politics," according to press materials.
For more information, visit judaic.arizona.edu or call 626-5758.
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