The most noteworthy items are a silver Torah crown and an eighteenth-century silver-and-diamond pointer (used for reading the Torah), which are being sold by the family of the late Rabbi Alexander Schindler, most of whose savings were invested with Bernie Madoff.
There was also a possible pointer towards next year's Classics in the preceding Silver Flash Stakes, a Group Three contest, as Tanaza, from Dermot Weld's stable, beat the O'Brien-trained fAliceite Alice Springs by a length and a quarter.
He had produced a pair of remonim, ornamental handle covers for a Torah, and a yad, a stylized pointer for reading it, plus a breastplate, all in silver and gold.
SILVER STARS 85, MONARCHS 78 Becky Hammon made six 3-pointers and scored 30 points, leading visiting San Antonio in the opener of the Western Conference playoffs.
There were no obvious pointers from the world championship, where Kenny took silver to Grégory Baugé of France and Hoy defeated the Australian Shane Perkins for bronze, the 81st world level medal of his career.
In addition, silver ornaments (rimonim) in the form of towers or crowns are often set on the tops of two rods on which the scroll is wound, and a breastplate (hoshen) and a pointer (yad) are suspended from them.
The silver lining for the Nets was that, somehow, they went into halftime trailing by only 7 after Gerald Wallace hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to cut the Bulls' lead to 41-34.
Deng responded for Great Britain with another three-pointer to leave his side just one point behind with 7.2 seconds to go but Span inbounded to Calderón and the silver medallists in Beijing held on for victory.
Silver Specifically, silver walls.
