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The Artist in the Parking Lot The Artist in the Parking Lot
Monday, July 30, 2012 by Yehudah Mirsky | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

"Once upon a time in a kingdom, in a Middle Eastern democratic country, there was a watchman. The watchman sat for days on end in a booth, in the southern end of a pretty Mediterranean city, in a concrete parking lot . . ."
The Fate of the Aleppo Codex
Monday, July 30, 2012 by Ronen Bergman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The medieval manuscript contains a warning to would-be thieves: “Cursed be he who steals it, and cursed be he who sells it.”  One huge ransom and several international maneuvers later, about 200 pages are missing . . . 
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