Ashkenazi versus Sephardic Jews – aish.com
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. Can you explain to me something about the difference between Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewry
Here are the films that are welcoming back NYCs Israel Film Center Festival – The Times of Israel
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New York Jewish Week From an epic historical film about Israels War of Independence to a nuanced documentary set in unassuming Petah Tikva, a diverse slate of new, noteworthy Israeli films are coming to New York this week. The 10th Israel Film Center Festival at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, which runs until June 8, is bringing back in-person screenings and continuing online screenings after two years of festivals that were entirely virtual. The festival will screen four features two documentaries and two fiction films and the first few episodes of the second season of the Israeli comedy TV series The New Black (Shababnikim), which is about four bad-boy yeshiva students testing the boundaries of their Haredi Orthodox community
Mom worries about husband’s family history of breast cancer – The Independent
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Biblio File: The Treasure of the Jews – Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council
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Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the Worlds Most Contested CityAndrew Lawler, Random House, 2021, 464 pp., A$54.50 In 1867, the Scottish adventurer John MacGregor descended a rope ladder into a subterranean tunnel by the walls of Jerusalems Old City. His guide was the famous British archaeologist Charles Warren, engaged just then in one of the first serious excavations of Jerusalem. Once underground, the men scrambled happily through the filthy shafts like cats or monkeys, peering into the citys ancient layers, the walls slick with moisture and the floor soggy with sewage
Bat Shlomo Winery one-of-a-kind – Cleveland Jewish News
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BAT SHLOMO, Israel Shavuot is one of the three major Jewish festivals. On Shavuot, we celebrate receiving the Torah in a number of ways
4 spots to do all-night Shavuot learning in the city that never sleeps – JTA News – Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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(New York Jewish Week) This weekend is Shavuot, the major Jewish holiday that occurs seven weeks after the second Passover seder and marks the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Though Shavuot is light on specific rituals besides the custom of eating cheesecake, blintzes, bourekas and other dairy delicacies the holiday has become a celebration of Jewish study, in general, and Torah learning, in particular
She could leave Ukraine, but stays to preserve its Jewish future – Forward
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Rachel Strugatsky, at Kyiv's Brodsky Synagogue, holds up her identification card for Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces, for which she volunteered days after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. Photo by Rachel Strugatsky By Helen ChervitzJune 02, 2022 Helen Chervitz is an American fashion writer in Kyiv, but since the Russian invasion has been writing about living in a country at war.
As the nation’s body count continues to mount, the NRA and its acolytes party on – Arizona Mirror
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Despite what the braying anti-Roe Right wants you to think, America is not pro-life. This country is pro-death
The Rules of Conversion – Tablet Magazine
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What does it mean to join the people of Israel? This question takes on pressing urgency now as the State of Israel takes in tens of thousands of refugees from Ukraine, some with Jewish mothers, some with only Jewish fathers, some who converted or want to convert, others non-Jews seeking safety until the fighting ends
Why this video about seltzer and Torah study went viral in the Orthodox Jewish community – JTA News – Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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(New York Jewish Week) A video of an Orthodox Jewish man making a passionate speech about his love for the Talmud and cold seltzer spread like wildfire over Twitter, showing off what makes yeshiva culture such a unique part of Judaism.
