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- BUSINESS, Page 77Business NotesCOLLECTIBLESBubble Gum Not Included
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- 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.
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- 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.
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