Last year, the world body that regulates emojis added a bagel emoji. Now an organization of European rabbis has called on the Unicode Consortium to add images that represent Jews. Sefaria, a large online library of Jewish texts, is also getting on the action with a campaign to introduce a Torah emoji. The Conference of European Rabbis…
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