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Apr. 29, 2021 6:55 PM
In 1970, Israel Adler, then the director of Israel’s Jewish National and University Library, visited the Paris home of Rachel Mosseri, a Jewish exile from Nasser’s Egypt. Adler had a big mission, and limited time to carry it out – just 10 days to catalog and photograph the roughly 7,000 documents from the Cairo Genizah that constituted the collection assembled by Mosseri’s late husband, Jacques Mosseri, some six decades earlier.
From other caches, most notably that assembled by Solomon Schechter, the world of Jewish scholarship already recognized the long-concealed storage space of Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue as an incomparable source of Jewish books, documents and fragments that dated back at least 1,000 years. Not all of them were sacred texts; some were just “sacred trash,” as Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole titled their superb 2011 book about the genizah: letters, contracts, shippi
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Community Blood Center of the Ozarks (CBCO), the exclusive provider of blood for patients at 44 area healthcare facilities, has a critical need for O Negative blood.
Reserves are alarmingly low, due in part to a sharp increase in hospital usage over the past several months. According to CBCO, although COVID-19 vaccinations are rolling out, there is a continued negative impact on donation rates at CBCO blood drives.
CBCO urges eligible O Negative donors to immediately give a CBCO donor center or blood drive near them.
Over the past four months, CBCO reports that hospital blood transfusion rates have increased more than 16% during the same time last year and 11% above usage rates from two years ago. Last month, transfusion totals were the highest they have been for any March since 2015.
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April 15, 2021
The College has announced plans to host an in-person commencement ceremony for the Class of 2021 at 10 a.m. on Sunday, June 13, on Hull (Library) Plaza.
Nearly 500 students are expected to receive degrees during Union’s 227th Commencement, which will be held outdoors rain or shine.
All graduates will be required to follow appropriate health and safety measures in accordance with New York state guidance. This includes proof of a negative COVID-19 test and/or a completed vaccination series (at least 14 days beyond the last vaccine), masking and physical distancing.
Due to limits on crowd size, each student will be allowed two tickets for family and friends to watch the celebration, which will be broadcast at outdoor, on-campus satellite locations. The ceremony will also be livestreamed for off-campus audiences.