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In Hebrew I am Yehudit bat Yochanan. I feel kind of proud of that name now!
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The Story of Yehudit
The Woman Who Saved the Day!
It is not clearly known when the story which we are about to tell actually took place....
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I grew up hearing that "Jews ran Hollywood and the banks." The more I think about some of the things my mother has said to me about the Jewish people, the more I wonder who was the antisemitic that had my mom having some harsh words about the...
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My research has shown the the Disputation lasted 4-days. It is unknown what happened to the churches account of the Disputation only Rabbi Nachman's publication exists today.
The Disputation of Barcelona (1263): the Hebrew
Report of Moshe Ben...
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By Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks
We know that Jews have won a disproportionate number of Nobel Prizes: over twenty percent of them from a group that represents 0.2 per cent of the world population, an over-representation of 100 to
one. But the most...
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Baruch HaShem
This is incredibly long however it is worth taking the time to read. I read it a few years ago and again today. I must say it still jolted my soul. There were pictures and graphs but I am unsure if they copied over. Sorry if they...
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This morning, I was saying my prayers and working very hard to maintain that prayful concentration. It worked for awhile until I was reading Pesukei D'Zimra. There in one line my thoughts went on a tangent. "Blessed is He, Who has mercy on all...
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From my teacher, Rav Kiwak.
Everyone in the neighborhood knew Mote’le, he was labeled with many titles, his mother called him ‘the delinquent with no hope’, the children called him ‘the wild one’, even the teacher in cheder defined him ‘a...
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I'm thinking, between the bunch of us, we can make a kosher version of anything! But, my current sticking point... gravy. Well, I can make a gravy with seasonings, water and flour. The real problem is the broth base, or bullion. And the gravy...
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The Talmud, along with several other ancient sources, both Jewish and non Jewish, records the following story:
King Ptolemy once gathered 72 Elders. He placed them in 72 chambers, each of them in a separate one, without revealing to them why they...
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In 1988, a famous Hasidic Rebbe had lost his wife. Among those paying condolences, was a Lithuanian Rosh Yeshiva. This particular Rosh Yeshiva was world renowned for his penetrating analyses of RAMBAM, both in halachah and philosophy. As could be...
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