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From: The Jerusalem Report
Date: 20031006
Author:Yael Kliers

The story of Jonah and the whale, which we read during the afternoon Minhah service on Yom Kippur, has captured the imagination throughout the ages, as indicated by the recurring motif in Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, made even more popular in Disney's version of the Italian story.

To read the Biblical text online, go to http://www.hareidi.org/ bible/bible.htm, and choose Jonah from the list of Biblical books, where you can read it in Hebrew or JPS's English translation, or look through an expanded version that provides links to Talmud passages in which it is discussed.

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