Genizah of Newspapers That Were Not Read

Question

A newspaper that contains several pages with words of Torah, but those pages were not read, can it be thrown into the trash?

Answer

Shalom u'vracha 

It is forbidden to throw into the trash pages that are known to contain sacred words. 

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