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The number 70 is a key number in the Torah and the Tanach. It is spoken about in Daniel as well as Yirmiyahu (Jeremiah) in relation to a span of time concerning the first exile.
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Alan Stern Published 10:17 a.m. ET Dec. 16, 2019 | Updated 5:00 a.m
admin | December 17, 2019
A simple pancake made with potatoes, onion, and matzo meal fried in oil is the highlight of many Hanukkah celebrations and a symbol of a miracle from over 2,000 years ago. According to the Talmud, the book of Jewish law, when the Jews rededicated the Temple of Jerusalem after defeating a tyrant king, one days worth of oil provided light for eight nights
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It has long been understood, and by cultures too various to list, that salamanders have something of the supernatural about them. Their name is thought to derive from an ancient Persian vocable meaning 'fire within', and for at least 2,000 years they were believed to be impervious to flames, or even capable of extinguishing them on contact. Aristotle recorded this exceptional characteristic, as did Leonardo da Vinci
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Photo Credit: Nati Shohat / Flash 90 By Mark Newman Anyone who even casually knows the Hebrew Bible (Tanach) has heard of Shmuel the Prophet. He accomplished many great things of which two were anointing Shaul (Saul) of the tribe of Binyamin (Benjamin) the first king of Israel and later anointing David of the tribe of Yehudah (Judah) the king of Israel. Additionally, Shmuel wrote Sefer Shoftim (the Book of Judges), Sefer Shmuel (the Book of Samuel), and Megillat Rut (the Scroll of Ruth), three of the 24 books in Tanach
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(JTA) Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop was one of the first New Jersey officials to describe Tuesdays shooting at a kosher market as a hate crime motivated by anti-Semitism. He did so on Wednesday, a day before the states attorney general did. Had I said that we were unsure of the motives or the reasons or whether it was a hate crime, I feel like it wouldve jeopardized my relationship with the community, the trust Ive built, and at the end of the day we would have looked very foolish, he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in a phone interview Friday
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Photo Credit: Jewish Press Chassidim have celebrated the 19th of Kislev (Yud Tes Kislev) ever since the Alter Rebbe (1745-1812) author of Shulchan Aruch HaRav and Tanya was released from czarist imprisonment on that date in 1798. It gained even greater significance, however, when 103 years later his great-great-grandson, the Rebbe Rashab (1860-1920), proclaimed it to be the Rosh Hashanah of Chassidus. The Alter Rebbe was imprisoned on charges of treason because, among other reasons, he had annually sent funds to support chassidim in the Holy Land, which was then part of the Ottoman Turkish Empire Russias enemy
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Police have identified one of the dead suspects in a shootout at a kosher market in Jersey City asDavid Anderson, who reportedly is a former member of the Black Hebrew Israelites.
admin | December 17, 2019
What young Malaysians need to learn from Germany is to learn from history, says the German Ambassador to Malaysia.
admin | December 17, 2019
By the end of 1962, the year that Philip K. Dick published his novel The Man in the High Castle, John F.
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