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- <text id=89TT1840>
- <title>
- July 17, 1989: Business Notes:Collectibles
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 17, 1989 Death By Gun
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 77
- Business Notes
- COLLECTIBLES
- Bubble Gum Not Included
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Hey, I'll trade you a Ruderman for a Feinstein!" No, this
- is not a proposed baseball-card swap, but the kind of deal that
- might occur among children with a religious bent: trading rabbi
- cards. Since they were introduced last August, more than 400,000
- have been sold at 20 cents apiece, or 99 cents for a pack of
- five. On the back of each 4-in. by 6-in. card, printed in
- English and Hebrew, are the rabbi's dates of birth and death,
- the books he published and details about his life.
- </p>
- <p> Created by Arthur Shugarman, a Baltimore accountant, the
- cards aim to inspire Jewish youngsters by helping them put faces
- to the names they learn in Hebrew school. Shugarman started a
- nonprofit company called Torah Personalities, which now
- distributes the cards. The most coveted one: Moshe Feinstein of
- New York City, an expert on Jewish law who died in 1986.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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