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Duration: 03:59
Program: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly #1148
Broadcast Date: Aug. 1, 2008

Menachem Youlus, a Torah scribe who has been called the Indiana Jones of rabbis, has traveled to dangerous places all over the world in his mission to find, rescue, and recover sacred Torah scrolls.

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