admin | March 7, 2021
For most Americans, traditional Jewish culture summons up images of Passover seders with steaming bowls of matzah ball soup, black-hatted, pale-skinned Hasidic men, and Yiddish-speaking bubbes (grandmothers) and zeydes (grandfathers). In reality, these snapshots represent only one Jewish ethnic group Ashkenazi of many. Shared Jewish history, rituals, laws, and values unify an international Jewish community
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admin | March 7, 2021
On Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, Dr
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admin | March 3, 2021
Depending on your heritage. Jewish food may be your bubbes brisket, babkas and latkes or the shakshuka, bourekas or dolmeh recipes your family brought over from Iraq. In his cookbook Jew-ish, subtitled Recipes from a Modern Mensch, food writer, editor and test kitchen director Jake Cohen puts a fresh spin on classic dishes from the Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jewish traditions, accompanied by engaging personal anecdotes as well as tantalizing photos taken by Matt Taylor-Gross.
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admin | March 3, 2021
Enjoy plant-based dishes at this years Passover. The holidays symbolism of renewal and the Jewish value of tikkun olam meet deliciously at the seder table with food thats good for your health and kind to the earth. Never miss the best stories and events! Get JewishBoston This Week.
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admin | March 3, 2021
The Resonant Heart is an evening of creative expression, cultural performance and femme celebration for International Womens Day. Ahead of this International Womens Day, The Boite will host The Resonant Heart, an evening of multidisciplinary performance from distinguished Melbourne-based artists from across the world. Conceptualized by musician and performer Nela Trifkovic, the evening will feature performances by two all-femme bands, as well as solos by acclaimed artists, Zimbabwean multi-disciplinary artist Tariro Mavondo, and Palestinian artist-activist Aseel Tayah.
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admin | February 25, 2021
Julia Watts Belser In biblical stories about Noah, his ark, the individuals who survive the flood and those left behind, Jewish tradition reckons with questions of human hubris and survival. California State University, Northridges eighth annual Maurice Amado Foundation Lecture in Jewish Ethics on Wednesday, March 10, will explore ancient Jewish texts, along with testimony from contemporary disability communities, to grapple with the issues surrounding climate change and the question: Whose lives does society deem worth saving?
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admin | February 25, 2021
For decades, human rights defenders and Jewish immigrant families have reported that thousands of children were abducted from their biological parents in the first years after Israel was created in 1948. In their opinion, these children, many of whom are of Yemeni descent, were given to Ashkenazi Jewish couples (Central and Eastern Europe) who lived in Israel or abroad. Doctors told the biological parents that the children had died in childbirth, but the bodies were never handed over.
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admin | February 25, 2021
One of the worlds oldest known Esther scrolls, also known as a megillah, has found its final home in Jerusalem after recently being gifted to the National Library of Israel (NLI), which has the worlds largest collection of textual Judaica. Esther scrolls contain the story of the Book of Esther in Hebrew and are traditionally read in Jewish communities on the festival of Purim, which will take place on February 25-28 this year. 3 A mid-15th century Esther scroll gifted to the National Library of Israel (Photo: National Library of Israel) Scholars have determined that the newly received scroll was written by a scribe on the Iberian Peninsula around 1465, prior to the Spanish and Portuguese Expulsions at the end of the 15th century.
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admin | February 23, 2021
A mid-15th century Iberian megillah of Esther - also referred to as the Esther scrolls - has been gifted to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.The Iberian Esther scroll is one of the oldest surviving renditions of the biblical tale of Esther taking up her noble destiny to save the Jewish people from the evil Haman.Experts determined that the mid-15th century scroll was written by a Jewish record-keeper around 1465, prior to the expulsion of Jewish populations from Spain and Portugal at the end of the century.A mid-15th century Sephardic Esther scroll which was gifted to the National Library of Israel. (National Library of Israel)It was the only complete 15th century megillah currently being held in private hands prior to the donation.
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admin | February 23, 2021
A megillah dating from around 1465 has been gifted to the National Library of Israel and made available to view online, just in time for the festival of Purim.
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