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BUSINESS, Page 77Business NotesCOLLECTIBLESBubble Gum Not Included
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.
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.