Jaime Lerner, renowned Brazilian-Jewish urban planner and politician, dies at 83 – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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Jaime Lerner, renowned Brazilian-Jewish urban planner and politician, dies at 84 – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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Today the Gemara continues its discussion of a mishnah introduced on the previous page which describes how the high priest measures out incense to be offered in the Holy of Holies in Yom Kippur. Rav Pappa dominates the page, raising a total of six questions, four of which end with the word teyku — ”let it […]
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Today’s daf tells us the story of a remarkable woman named Kimchit: The sages taught: Kimchit had seven sons, and they all served in the office of the high priesthood. The sages said to her: What good deeds did you perform to merit this? She said to them: In all my days, the beams of […]
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Patti Smith and Julian Casablancas among over 600 musicians to call for boycott of Israel – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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(JTA) — It has been a traumatic time for world Jewry. If violence in Gaza and Israel were not bad enough, the fallout from the conflict has spurred physical attacks on Jews, vandalism and antisemitic rhetoric. The antisemitism this time has not been perpetrated by neo-Nazis and white nationalists but by elements of the left […]
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(JTA) — For many 20-somethings, the experience of moving back into their parents’ home during the pandemic was common. For Willie Zabar, fourth-generation scion of one of New York’s most famous Jewish emporiums, the pandemic brought a different kind of homecoming: returning to the family business. A comedian and theater worker, Zabar, 28, had mostly […]
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Canada hit with wave of antisemitic attacks sparked by Israel-Gaza conflict – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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Pope Francis kisses Holocaust survivor’s Auschwitz tattoo – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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MODIIN, Israel (JTA) — When my third-grade daughter’s school sent permission slips home this week for an upcoming field trip to Jerusalem’s Old City, a debate erupted on our parents’ WhatsApp group. Was it safe to visit there, just days after the 11-day war between Israel and Hamas concluded? The conflict had begun with unrest in […]
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