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PURIM: Only a Jew Know his History

Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, who was planning to kill all the Jews. This took place in the ancient Achaemenid Persian Empire. The story is recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther. It is also known as the Feast of Lots.
Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks at a swearing-in ceremony for the Rabbinate Council at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on Oct. 24, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

‘We will not accept converts under new reform,’ Israel’s Sephardi chief rabbi warns

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Israel’s Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef harshly criticized Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana on Tuesday for spearheading conversion and kashrut reforms Yosef claims go against Jewish law. Speaking at a massive rabbinical gathering, Yosef accused...
Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau attends a ceremony on the first night of Hanukkah, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Nov. 28, 2021. Photo by Flash90.

Israel’s Ashkenazi chief rabbi: ‘The Knesset won’t decide who is a Jew’

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“I’m still a little weak. A few days ago I got over COVID,” Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau apologizes at the beginning of a conversation with Israel Hayom. A few hundreds meters from the bustling...
Jews pray at the grave of Rabbi Isaac Luria Ashkenazi in Tzfat, July 2006. Photo by Haim Azulay/Flash90.

500-year-old letter offers rare look into the life of a legendary Kabbalist

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The National Library of Israel is making available to the public for the first time a 500-year-old letter shedding light on the life of one of the most influential kabbalists in Jewish history. The letter,...
From left: Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern; Andrew Herenstein; Terri Herenstein; Dina Sacks; Lady Elaine Sacks; Joshua Sacks; Rabbi Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University; Elliott Goldstein; Gila Sacks; Eve Sacks; Judith Sacks; and Alan Sacks, Oct. 11, 2021. Credit: Blake Ezra Photography.

Yeshiva University establishes Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Center for Values and Leadership 

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With the commemoration of the first yahrzeit of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, who served as chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, Yeshiva University announced the creation of the Rabbi...
Monsieur Chouchani taught many of the 20th century's Jewish scholars. Archive Photograph: No credit.

Shining a light on one of Judaism’s most enigmatic scholars

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For Israeli Philosophy Professor Shalom Rosenberg, the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who had the privilege of meeting Monsieur Choucani and those who did not. An enigmatic scholar, Choucani taught many...
Jewish men pray at the entrance to the Temple Mount complex in Jerusalem on the holiday of Hoshana Raba, Oct. 11, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

In first, Israeli court backs ‘silent’ Jewish prayer on Temple Mount

Jerusalem Magistrates Court Judge Bilha Yahalom ruled on Wednesday that the silent prayer of Jews on the Temple Mount is allowed, saying it cannot be deemed a “criminal act.” The ruling was the first by...

Music for Yom Kippur: Kol Nidrei, The History of a Song and a Prayer

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Kol Nidrei is an Aramaic phrase which means far more than its literal translation, “All Vows.” This statement of annulment of vows has become such a dominant part of the Jewish religious psyche that it...
A Bar Mitzvah ceremony in Manama, Bahrain, on Aug. 21, 2021. Credit: Courtesy.

Bahrain celebrates first bar mitzvah in 16 years

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The first bar mitzvah in Bahrain in 16 years was held over the weekend at the House of Ten Commandments, the oldest and only operational synagogue in a Gulf Cooperation Council country. The bar mitzvah...
A statue of Alexander Hamilton in Paterson, N.J. Credit: Joseph Sohm/Shutterstock.

Historian claims founding father Alexander Hamilton had Jewish upbringing

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A historian is claiming that Alexander Hamilton, the country’s first Treasury Secretary who was instrumental in the ratification of the Constitution and whose popularity has risen in recent years due to the musical “Hamilton,”...