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In Judaism, an ornate silver pointer used to follow the text in the Torah scrolls during a reading in synagogue. The Torah is handwritten on parchment, and human touch would eventually erase the letters and damage the scroll. The yad is usually finely decorated, with a minature hand and pointing finger at one end. When not in use, it hangs over the front of the dressed scroll.



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Among the collection of Rosh Hashanah cards preserved by Yad Vashem is a New Year's portrait of Aaron and Sheyndel Blumen (upper left) that they sent to their loved ones from Luboml, Poland (now Ukraine) in 1926.
Detlev Hosenfeld, 82, received the award recognising his father as Righteous Among the Nations, an honour bestowed by the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem to people who helped Jews during the war.
 
 
 
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