admin | April 20, 2024
(April 18, 2024 / JNS) A rare volume of the Talmud printed before World War II and found unscathed in a historic Munich beer hall after the Holocaust was given to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum on Wednesday by the family of President Isaac Herzog. The Pesachim Tractate of the Babylonian Talmud has been in the familys possession for the last eight decades; it will be permanently displayed at the museum in Jerusalem.
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admin | March 30, 2024
(JTA) More than two decades ago Rabbi Shai Held was lecturing to a class of fifth-year rabbinical students when he remarked in passing, Judaism revolves around the claim that God loves us and beckons us to love God back. Said one skeptical student: That sounds Christian to me. Held recalls thinking, I was just quoting the morning liturgy: bechol levavacha You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, as it says in the Veahavata section of the Shema.
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admin | February 29, 2024
Bans, Backlash and Sales: Books on Israel and Palestine Are Flying Off the Shelves - Life & Culture Haaretz
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admin | January 30, 2024
The American Jewish Left in Exile | David Klion The New York Review of Books
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admin | January 22, 2024
Never Again: Books to Read this Holocaust Remembrance Day Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
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admin | January 22, 2024
Within Biblical Hebrew itself, subdivisions can be made according to the period or stage of the language. The earliest Hebrew texts that have reached us date from the end of the second millennium B.C.E. The Israelite tribes that settled in Canaan from the 14th to 13th centuries B.C.E.regardless of what their language might have been before they established themselves thereused Hebrew as a spoken and a literary language until the fall of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.E.
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admin | January 19, 2024
Six New Books on the Holocaust, World War II, and Wartime Leadership Publishers Weekly
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admin | December 13, 2023
Judaism (Hebrew: Yah) is an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion. It comprises the collective spiritual, cultural, and legal traditions of the Jewish people,[1][2] having originated as an organized religion in the Middle East during the Bronze Age.[4] Contemporary Judaism evolved from Yahwism, the cultic religious movement of ancient Israel and Judah, around the 6th/5th century BCE,[5] and is thus considered to be one of the oldest monotheistic religions.[6][7] Religious Jews regard Judaism as their means of observing the Mosaic covenant, which was established between God and the Israelites, their ancestors.[8] Jewish religious doctrine encompasses a wide body of texts, practices, theological positions, and forms of organization
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