To be distinguished from Irving Stone

Irving Stone

Irving Stone was an American writer known for his biographical novels of famous historical personalities, including Lust for Life, a biographical novel about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and The Agony and the Ecstasy, a biographical novel about Michelangelo.-Biography:In...

 the novelist

Irving I. Stone (1909 in Cleveland – January 19, 2000) (born Sapirstein) was an American philanthropist

Philanthropist

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, businessman, and founder-chairman of American Greetings

American Greetings

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, which was founded by his father Jacob Sapirstein.

He was a longtime Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

 resident and generous benefactor of its many institutions both Jewish and otherwise. The Jerusalem suburb of Tel-Stone is named in his honor. Among the causes the Stones supported were Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is a research university ranked as 45th in the US among national universities by U.S. News & World Report in 2012...

 and the Chinuch Atzmai Torah schools in Israel.

The Stone Chumash and Stone Tanach

The Stones were benefactors of the ArtScroll

ArtScroll

ArtScroll is an imprint of translations, books and commentaries from an Orthodox Jewish perspective published by Mesorah Publications, Ltd., a publishing company based in Brooklyn, New York...

 editions of the Chumash

Chumash

The Chumash are a Native American people who historically inhabited the central and southern coastal regions of California, in portions of what is now San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties, extending from Morro Bay in the north to Malibu in the south...

 and Tanakh

Tanakh

The Tanakh is a name used in Judaism for the canon of the Hebrew Bible. The Tanakh is also known as the Masoretic Text or the Miqra. The name is an acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the Masoretic Text's three traditional subdivisions: The Torah , Nevi'im and Ketuvim —hence...

 which bear their name. These versions differ from, for example, Jewish Publication Society in several ways, including with transliterations of many Hebrew terms rather than translation into English, and a largely Ashkenazi Haredi spelling of this transliteration. The Stones supported projects under the guidance of rabbi Nachum Dev Zessler, in Cleveland.