"In the larger scheme of things, the dedication of the employees of the Judaica Sound Archive at Florida Atlantic University isn't earth-shattering. It doesn't change Florida, the way oil drilling off the coast would. It doesn't build houses or end foreclosures or reinvigorate the economy.

But it alters Florida just the same, adding a twist of culture to a state that too often is criticized for sterile shopping malls, cookie-cutter houses and cultural voids."

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