Returning Jewish artifacts to Israel

Before Covid, Israeli Rabbi Eliahu Birnbaum traveled the world collecting Jewish relics found in junk shops and synagogue genizot (repositories for discarded holy items). Hundreds of objects telling the history of the diaspora are now displayed at Ohr Torah Stone in Eftat, Israel.

https://www.jns.org/collector-of-jewish-souls-a-rabbis-treasures-culled-from-around-the-world/

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