Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter
When the Jewish Publication Society (JPS) discovered four years ago that Jews serving in the U.S. military were offered only the New Testament as their “standard issue Bible,” the nonprofit publishing company responded by raising more than $70,000 to send free copies of the JPS Tanakh (an English translation of the Hebrew Bible) to 13,000 Jewish servicemen and women.
Bravo, JPS!
To read more about this project, please click here.
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