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Virtual Melton is the distance education platform of the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The platform is hosted at the Mount Scopus Campus of the University, in Jerusalem, Israel. The site runs on an updated version of the Moodle open source distance learning platform.

Virtual Melton is used for four main purposes:

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