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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admin | February 23, 2021
Image by elesi/Shutterstock.com The The Morris-George Washington-Haym Salomon Monument in Heald Square, Chicago A public monument featuring Revolutionary War financier Haym Saloman, a Polish-Jewish American businessman, may be removed from where it stands in Chicagos Heald Square.
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admin | February 23, 2021
Browse > Home / News / One of the worlds oldest complete megillahs gifted to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem February 23, 2021 by J-Wire Newsdesk Read on for article One of the worlds oldest known Esther scrolls (also known as a megillah) has recently been gifted to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, home to the worlds largest collection of textual Judaica.
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admin | February 19, 2021
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admin | February 19, 2021
THE FIRST four times I called, I got a busy signal. Then, finally, an answer: Best I can do is two people, three months from now, Vale?
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admin | February 19, 2021
PHOTOS BY MICHAEL PERSICO Like most of us, Michael Solomonov, the Philadelphia-based chef with Pittsburgh roots, misses traveling. Hes longing to return to Israel, where he came of age and later found his culinary voice
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admin | February 18, 2021
I spent a decade composing the music for the Warner Brothers TV Network. Here in Los Angeles, that means every time you watched a Channel 5 sports broadcast, a TV show promo or the Rose Parade, you heard my music in the background. But as great an experience as this was for a composer just out of college, I realized my heart was elsewhere
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