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.

The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies will host the lecture "What Are We Really Praying for When We Pray for Healing?" 4 p.m. Monday, March 27 at the University of Arizona Hillel Foundation, 1245 E. Second St.

Gila Silverman, a researcher of religion, medicine and healing among non-Orthodox Jews and an affiliated lecturer with the Judaic studies center, will speak, according to press materials.Β 

For more information, visit judaic.arizona.edu/healingprayer or callΒ 626-5758.


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