200-year-old Torah

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.

 Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily Star

The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies will host the lecture "Bedouin Life in the Early 20th Century" 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27 at the University of Arizona Hillel Foundation, 1245 E. Second Street. 

Middle Eastern archaeologist and Mississippi State University emeritus professor Joe Seger will speak. 

For more information, visit judaic.arizona.edu/bedouinofisrael or call 626-5758. 

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