WSJ’s ‘Holy’ Front Page Creates Problems for Religious Jews

Will Jewish readers of the Wall Street journal have to keep last Friday’s edition forever? That was the question raised by the JTA news agency after the front page of The Wall Street Journal featured an article on the perils of dropping the Torah scroll during “hagbah”, the Torah-lifting ritual.

The problem arose because of the fact that the story included a photo of a Torah scroll open to the Ten Commandments in the Book of Exodus, the blurry text includes God’s name.

Throwing God’s name in the trash is a no-no, so what does that mean for the Wall Street journal’s religious readers? Must they keep it forever, bury it, or place it in a “genizah”?

The JTA decided to ask rabbis what they thought and the consensus is – no.

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