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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 429

Rashi

Bezalel Naor
May 8, 2018, 3:42 pm
Bezalel Naor
The Messiah’s donkey of a thousand colors
One remarkable Talmudic description of Redemption looks a lot like the modern State of Israel
'Ostara' by Johannes Gehrts, created in 1884 and published in 1901. (public domain)
April 5, 2015, 3:54 pm
The pagan goddess behind the holiday of ‘Easter’
Most languages use Aramaic to describe Jesus’s resurrection. Why is English different? Meet the ‘woman’ to blame
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A page from the Talmud, the Oral law of Judaism, August 19, 2007. (photo credit: Mendy Hechtman/FLASH90)
March 16, 2015, 7:07 pm
Spoof Talmud page analyzes election
Judaic studies teacher applies old-school Jewish reasoning to modern voters’ dilemmas
By Hillel Kuttler
Members of the Union of French Jewish Students demonstrate in Paris with a sign that reads 'Jews murdered, republic in danger.' (Courtesy UEJF)
January 14, 2015, 4:36 am
French Jewry 101: From Rashi to Dreyfus to Hyper Cacher
A primer on the Jews of France, as they cope with anti-Semitism and the aftermath of a deadly terror wave
By Gabrielle Birkner
Raphael Freeman
March 6, 2014, 4:26 pm
Raphael Freeman
English translation, Rashi and Onkelus, oh my!
Yes, without automated processes, it’s pretty daunting to typeset the Hebrew Bible
Salom, a Jewish Ladino-language weekly published in Turkey, launched in 1947, just a few years after more than half the world's Ladino speakers died in the Holocaust. (Courtesy of Salom)
March 27, 2013, 3:31 pm
Turkish newspaper extends a lifeline to Ladino
In decline for more than a century, the Sephardic language is getting a boost from editors in Istanbul — and online
By Elizabeth Bloom
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
Bible scholar Tzemah Yoreh questions the common telling of the binding of Isaac -- the version that inspired Caravaggio -- in which an angel stops Abraham moments before he sacrifices his son. (Photo credit: From http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/isaac.jpgg/via Wikipedia)
November 28, 2012, 1:32 pm
When Abraham murdered Isaac
A young New York scholar believes he has unearthed the earliest version of the Bible, which features infanticide, a senseless massacre and only seven commandments

By Haviv Rettig Gur
Lentils in the sack at Machane Yehuda (photo credit: Sophie Gordon/Flash 90)
November 28, 2012, 1:32 am
A recipe from the biblical cookbook: Lentil stew
The prince of pulses is high in protein and easy to digest
By Phyllis Glazer
Mois Navon
October 7, 2012, 3:54 pm
Mois Navon
VeZot HaBracha: Is this the end?
To develop a relationship with God, one must be an involved participant
Joshua Hammerman
October 3, 2012, 12:28 pm
Joshua Hammerman
Maimonides and the ‘Negro’ etrog
I’m confident that Rambam’s reputation will survive, but I really wish he had come up with another way to describe a black citron
Biblical scholar Professor Menachem Cohen, reading from a book, at the Bar Ilan University library, outside Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
August 8, 2012, 6:23 pm
Israeli scholar completes ‘definitive’ version of the Bible
In correcting some 1,500 inaccuracies, Prof. Menachem Cohen, 84, has carried out the first major textual overhaul in 500 years
By Aron Heller
Mois Navon
February 16, 2012, 12:26 pm
Mois Navon
Mishpatim: Between individual and nation
To fulfill a purpose, as individuals and as nation, we must be united in cause -– ‘one people with one heart’
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