Talmud – earlychristianwritings.com
richards | November 5, 2014
At a Glance (3/5) *** (5/5) ***** The Babylonian Talmud is huge and occupies thirty volumes in the Soncino translation.
KOLOT My Fascination with Italian Judaism
richards | November 5, 2014
By Rabbi Gary Atkins I have always been intrigued and fascinated with the history of the small Jewish community of Italy. Early on in my rabbinical studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary, I learned that the first editions of the Talmud were printed in Italy in the early 1500s, and the first ghetto was in Venice, from where ghettoes spread throughout Europe. One of the first books of Jewish art I remember reading showed examples of ornate Italian Renaissance ketubot, with an enviable and even voluptuous artistic flow and freedom.
Sofia Synagogue – 04.11.2014 song 2 – Video
richards | November 5, 2014
Sofia Synagogue - 04.11.2014 song 2 By: Estee Cole D
Rebuilt synagogue mixes history and hopes for the future
richards | November 5, 2014
Congregation Beth Shalom of Napa Valley is celebrating its 60th anniversary, with the public invited to the party to revel in six decades of community service while honoring the dedication of the congregations new synagogue. Congregation Beth Shalom has been a fixture on Elm Street in Napa since 1955. The first synagogue was the original Napa Chamber of Commerce building, which the congregation had trucked to the Elm Street location and repurposed into a house of worship
Synagogue: Coroner re-schedules Joshuas appearance
richards | November 5, 2014
The coroner, Magistrate O. A.
Church to become first synagogue in German state since Kristallnacht
richards | November 5, 2014
The "castle church" in Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany. Image via the church
For some Orthodox converts, biggest challenges come after mikvah
richards | November 5, 2014
New to the community, converts often have no place to go for Shabbat or holidays. Image via Shutterstock.com There was the convert who was barred from a synagogue on Yom Kippur, the Jamaican convert whose boyfriends rabbi offered him a coveted synagogue honor if only hed dump her, the grandmother who told her granddaughter shed be going to hell because she became a Jew
The Khazars and the Mountain Jews: Tales from Jewish Azerbaijan
richards | November 5, 2014
The Mountain Jews of Quba at a Jewish school in the 1920s. Public Domain Buried deep beneath Azerbaijans bucolic landscape lie secrets behind the ancient Muslim-Jewish friendship that prevails in this South Caucasus largely Shiite country.
Amazing Hasidic dance 1 – Video
richards | November 5, 2014
Amazing Hasidic dance 1 By: Comedy Change
Theatre review: My Name is Asher Lev contrasts two ways to give meaning to life
richards | November 5, 2014
home > arts Riffe Center Studio Two Theatre Through Sunday, Nov. 9 77 S. High St., Downtown 614-469-0939 catco.org Most of us devise a way of both giving meaning to, and deriving meaning from, our experience of the world
