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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 426

Baal Shem Tov

The Shem Tov Bible is due to be auctioned at Sotheby's in September 2024. (Courtesy of Sotheby's)
June 10, 2024, 10:10 am
Sotheby’s to auction Shem Tov Bible scribed by the medieval scholar
The 1312 manuscript will be displayed at the auction house this month and again in September before it is sold
By ToI Staff
An Independence Day ceremony in the town of Rohatyn, Ukraine. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
November 4, 2017, 12:24 pm
In Ukraine, Jewish travelers mark a spiritual legacy… and horrific persecution
The country’s bustling cities and quaint hamlets are the birthplace of the Hassidic movement, and the site of devastating slaughters of Jews
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Abby Stein wrote in a blog that for as long as she could remember, she wanted to wake up one day as a girl. (JTA via Facebook screenshot)
November 19, 2015, 4:01 pm
Member of prominent US Hasidic family comes out as transgender
Abby — originally Srully — Stein said that for as long as she could remember, she ‘wanted to wake up one day as a girl’
By JTA and ToI Staff
Hugo Schwyzer
January 24, 2013, 4:00 pm
Hugo Schwyzer
In frozen Ukraine, warming up to my Jewish forefathers
I am not a Jew. My father’s family was, however, and part of this trip was about connecting to my distant paternal heritage
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays at the 770 building in Kfar Chabad, Israel (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)
January 7, 2013, 4:05 am
Two centuries after the death of its founder, Chabad launches year-long celebration with reissue of his works
Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, known as the Alter Rebbe and author of the mystical treatise Tanya, laid the foundations for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, the largest Hassidic group in the world
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Marijuana is "great for praying," says author Yoseph Needelman. "The best way to use it, spiritually, is to share it." (Photo credit: CC BY/Pablo Evans via Flickr.com)
December 16, 2012, 5:53 pm
Were Europe’s great rabbis a bunch of potheads?
An author examines marijuana’s historical and spiritual role in Judaism — and wonders whether Moses’ parting of the Red Sea was a drug-induced hallucination
By Chavie Lieber
Zvi Leshem
September 16, 2012, 1:07 pm
Zvi Leshem
It’s all in our heads: A Rosh Hashanah guide
We need to do everything in our power to make ourselves happy, to bring joy to our family and friends on this holy day
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