This is an article from The Sentinel on July 30, 1970 reporting that the Turkish government had denied a group of American explorers’ permission to climb Mt. Ararat. The expedition, organised by the Search Foundation of Washington, DC, was hoping to climb the mountain in order to discover Noah’s Ark. The ark, as described in Genesis chapters 6–8, landed on Mt. Ararat at the end of the flood. Explorers have been searching for Noah’s Ark for almost 2,000 years, but no physical evidence of the ark has been found. According to the article, the group wasn’t informed about the prohibition until they had arrived in Turkey and had already shipped necessary equipment, which they were now unable to use, at the cost of $2,000.
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The Chicago Sentinel - The Chicago Sentinel, a weekly newspaper for the Chicago Jewish community, was one of the longest continuously published Jewish weeklies in the United States. The first issue of the Sentinel was published on February 4, 1911. The newspaper focused on cultural events and included many eye-catching illustrations and photographs. It also published short stories and reports about events in the various Jewish communities. The Sentinel differed from many other English-language, often highbrow, Jewish weeklies, because it reached out to the Zionist immigrants who preferred to read in English and not Yiddish. The Sentinel is a treasure trove for social, cultural, and religious historians who are interested in American Jewish life outside of New York during the twentieth century.
