The Jewish Braille Institute of America today dedicated its new building here. Mrs. Caroline K. Simon, Secretary of State of New York, and Miss Rebecca Randall, representing the Jewish blind of England, will be the principal speakers.
In addition to maintaining a free circulating library of Braille books and talking book record of Jewish interest, the Institute publishes the Jewish Braille Review, a monthly literary magazine, and also issues Hebrew-English Braille prayer books and the Bible in Hebrew Braille.
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