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Jews come in all colors, but they shouldn’t be defined by race alone

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For those who follow it, Jewish demography has always been a contact sport. But when it comes to the question of how many “Jews of color” are there really in the United States, the...
Tel Arad in the eastern Negev Desert, where there's a fortress constructed by the kingdom of Judah around the eighth century BCE. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Holy smokes! Ancient Israelites burned cannabis, according to researchers

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As part of getting spiritually high, ancient Israelites apparently burned cannabis on altars during rituals, the first proof of a mind-altering substance being used to attract worshippers, according to a study published on May 28 in...

Shavues

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שבֿועות זענען די נשמות פֿון אַלע גרים אויך געשטאַנען בײַם באַרג סיני פֿון יואל מאַטוועיעוו ווען דער אייבערשטער האָט זיך אַנטפּלעקט פֿאַר ייִדן, זענען זיי אינעם גײַסטיקן זינען געבוירן געוואָרן פֿון ס׳נײַ. ווי מע פּראַוועט שבֿועות אין...

Return to Eden

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Dear Reader — if you are looking to be happy, creative, in harmony with God and with the universe, the Torah has the answer — Return to the Source. When we speak about Returning to...

Lag B’Omer: the Jewish holiday of bonfires and marshmallows!

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This is a Judaism celebrated annually on the 33rd day of the Counting of the Omer (which is the 49 day period between Passover and Shavuot in the Jewish calendar, which according to the Torah...
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci. Source: Screenshot.

Fauci to Orthodox Jews: Phase in communal prayer as virus restrictions are lifted

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key member of the White House coronavirus task force, had a message on Thursday for Orthodox Jews: Phase in communal prayer as local coronavirus restrictions are being lifted. “The kind of...

May 5, 475: The Talmud, completed

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Rabbi Ravina ben Huna, known as Ravina II, head of the Jewish academy at Sura, a key center of learning in Babylonia, is said to have died on this date in 475. Tradition holds...

Muslims and Jews: The ‘original grudge’ theory

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In 2013, Princeton University Press published “A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day,” the first encyclopaedia on the history of relations between Jews and Muslims from the birth of...

Don’t break quarantine in the name of Judaism

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“A clever person sees evil and hides, but simpletons pass on and are punished” — Proverbs 22:3. This verse was cited by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Horodoker, writing from Tiberias in the aftermath of an epidemic...
Lady Kitty Spencer. Source: Screenshot.

Lady Kitty Spencer, Princess Diana’s niece, is reportedly converting to Judaism

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Lady Kitty Spencer, the niece of the late Princess Diana of Wales, is converting to Judaism to marry Jewish fashion tycoon Michael Lewis. It will be the second marriage for Lewis, a South Africa native...