admin | January 11, 2022
On Jan. 11, 2002, a U.S. military plane landed at our base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the first men deemed the worst of the worst by then-Vice President Dick Cheney were brought into the now-infamous detention center
admin | January 11, 2022
With omicron spreading in the Bay Area and many restaurants temporarily shutting down, it may be tempting to assume nothing good will happen in the food scene this winter. But new restaurants are still planning to debut, and some of them are extremely exciting.
admin | January 11, 2022
Are you one of more than half a million people worldwide (according to last years figures) who have committed to eating only vegan food for the whole of January?
admin | January 11, 2022
The Babylonian Talmuds lesser-known counterpart the Jerusalem Talmud is getting its moment in the limelight with the introduction of its first and only complete online manuscript, along with full English and French translations. Released late last month by Sefaria, a nonprofit offering free access to Jewish texts, the Jerusalem Talmud joins its Babylonian cousin, which Sefaria previously made available online. As a Jewish text the Talmud, an ancient collection of rabbinic interpretations on matters of faith and religious law, has never been known for its accessibility
admin | January 11, 2022
Rabbi Hillel Skolnik| Special to The Columbus Dispatch It is an old joke within the Jewish community that if you put three people in a room, youll hear four opinions.
admin | January 11, 2022
Like other Jewish holidays, the festival of Tu BShvat the 15th day of the month of Shevat has undergone changes since its first mention in the Jewish legal corpus known as the Mishnah, some 1,700 years ago. There, it was described as the New Year for the Tree.
admin | January 11, 2022
The recent demands to retroactively legalize Homesh as an appropriate Zionist response to the recent terror attack in which yeshiva student Yehuda Dimentman was killed put the young settlement issue back in the news. The term young settlements (hityashvut tzeira in Hebrew) is PR verbal laundering coined to try and give a veneer of respectability to the dozens of illegal outposts that dot the hills all over Judea and Samaria
admin | January 11, 2022
When he began writing about ethical wills in the 1970s, former San Diego Rabbi Jack Riemer would spend much of his time explaining this ancient Jewish tradition before he could even get into the notion of writing one of your own. Regular wills pass on your valuables, he would tell them, but ethical wills pass on your values
admin | January 11, 2022
Parashat Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16)By Rabbi Tiferet Berenbaum | January 5, 2022 Turn it and turn it for everything is in it, we read in Pirkei Avot 5:22it being the Torah. Elsewhere in Pirkei Avot we read, Torah kneged kulam, Torah is relevant to everything
admin | January 11, 2022
Widely scattered population from a single original territory A diaspora ( dye-AS-pr-) is a scattered population whose origin lies in a separate geographic locale.[2][3] Historically, the word diaspora was used[clarification needed] to refer to the mass dispersion of a population from its indigenous territories, specifically the dispersion of Jews.[4] Whilst the word was originally used to describe the forced displacement of certain peoples, "diasporas" is now generally used to describe those who identify with a "homeland", but live outside of it.[5][6][7] Some notable diasporas are the Assyrian Diaspora which originated during and after the Arab conquest of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran, and continued in the aftermath of the Assyrian genocide;[8][9] the southern Chinese and Indians who left their homelands during the 19th to 20th century; the Irish who left Ireland during and after the Great Famine;[10] the Scots who emigrated on a large scale after the Highland and Lowland Clearances;[11] the Romani from India;[12] the Italian diaspora and the Mexican diaspora; the exile and deportation of Circassians; the Palestinian diaspora following the flight or expulsion of Arabs from Palestine;[13] the Armenian Diaspora following the Armenian genocide;[14][15] the Lebanese Diaspora due to the Lebanese Civil War;[16] the fleeing of Greeks from Turkey after the fall of Constantinople,[17] the later Greek genocide,[18] and the Istanbul pogroms,[19] and the emigration of Anglo-Saxon warriors and their families after the Norman Conquest, primarily to the Byzantine Empire.[20] Recently, scholars have distinguished between different kinds of diaspora, based on its causes such as colonialism, trade or labor migrations, or by the kind of social coherence within the diaspora community and its ties to the ancestral lands. Some diaspora communities maintain strong political ties with their homeland. Other qualities that may be typical of many diasporas are thoughts of return, keeping ties back home (country of origin) relationships with other communities in the diaspora, and lack of full integration into the host countries.
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