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Thomas Paine, pamphleteer supreme, printed his greatest work Common Sense, in January 1776. The American Revolution was in its birth and Paine meant to inspire the colonials not to waver but to fight for independence from King George III
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THE Oxford Handbook series is a new venture for Oxford University Press, seeking to offer in each volume a state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research by using an international cast of scholars who specialise in the given area. This particular volume on the historical books provides resources for the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah, but with an eye to uniting the individual book treatments to questions of how the topic relates to, and helps to interpret, the historical books as a group. Questions of the relationship of these books to the wider Ancient Near Eastern world are also of concern, as well as issues of history settlement, state formation, monarchy, forced migration, and return and of literary redaction and reception, not to mention theological reflection on texts, traditions, and culture
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Antisemitism has been increasingly in the headlines, from reports of violent incidents directly targeting Jews to the growing prominence of ethnonationalist discourse that makes frequent use of Jewish stereotypes. This surge in anti-Jewishness includes renewed attention to the medieval image of the wandering Jew, translated into contemporary parlance with the term globalism. Conservative activists see the interconnected globe as a threat to traditional social structures, and as directly linked to diasporic Jewish thought, politics, and culture
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Carol Racklin-Siegel was born with the innate eye of an artist. The combination of painting classes, art camps and Hebrew school during her childhood in Los Angeles may have been the formula that cemented her enthusiasm for expressing herself visually and often within a Jewish context. Now, Im doing works based on my original passion, which is patterns in nature, she says
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(JTA) As Americans settle in for a weekend of barbecues and (hopefully) sunshine, heres a look back at seven stories from Fourth of Julys past in the Jewish Telegraphic Agencys online archive, which stretches back to the early 1920s. 1940: FDR speaks out against religious bigotry In 1940, as much of the globe was embroiled in World War II, and antisemitism raged in the U.S., President Franklin Delano Roosevelt urged Americans to forever banish from our minds and thoughts every vestige of racial hatred and religious bigotry in a message read at thousands of Independence Day celebrations across the country. The Council Against Intolerance in America, which sponsored the celebrations, also adopted an American Declaration of National Unity which affirmed that the United States stood for equality for all Americans of all races, creeds and colors.
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The Nazis in World War II concentrated mostly on murdering Eastern- and Central-European Jews; the suffering of the half-million Jews of Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya under the Nazis is less well-known.
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MADRID (JTA) Matilde Gini de Barnatn and her daughter Viviana Rajel Barnatn didnt set out to make Jewish history in Spain. In the 1960s and 70s, Matilde, now 85, established herself in Argentina as a prominent researcher, teacher and scholar of the history of Sephardic culture and the Spanish Inquisition in Ibero-America. Her extensive expertise and recognition in Argentine intellectual circles helped her become a close friend of the renowned writer Jorge Luis Borges.
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Behind every work of art created by Oreen Cohen, a partner at Pittsburghs OOA Designs LLC, is the voice of her mother fused with the influence of Israel. Long before Cohen graduated from the University at Buffalo and then Carnegie Mellon University where her masters work included an allegorical film involving the burial of a gilded casket filled with sunflower seeds in Braddock, Pennsylvania her Sephardic Israeli-Moroccan mother would utter short Hebrew aphorisms.
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Rabbi Lenny Sarko had a problem that was threatening to derail his career. After spending years as an environmental scientist creating recycling systems for corporations nationwide, Rabbi Sarko realized he was done with all the travel and decided to pursue a job related to his one true passion: Judaism.
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Updated June 30 at 10:50 a.m. Almost immediately after learning that the unique Jewish adult education center HaMaqom would be closing, Rachel and David Biale Jewish educators with links to the Berkeley institution since its founding in the 1970s knew they had to do something.
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