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- The book of 3 Maccabees is found in most Orthodox Bibles as a part ... it shares with the other Maccabean books a concern with issues such as ...9 KB (1,497 words) - 06:44, 13 June 2023
- Joseph Albo (יוסף אלבו) (c. 1380 – c. 1444) was a Jewish ... To counter the anti-Jewish polemic of the time, Albo sought to forge ...13 KB (2,036 words) - 07:18, 10 August 2022
- (February 10, 1890 – May 30, 1960) was a Russian poet and writer best ... 10, 1890. His parents were Leonid Pasternak, a prominent Jewish painter and ...9 KB (1,413 words) - 18:30, 31 March 2023
- Ernst Cassirer (July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German-Jewish ... Cassirer played a mediating role between the two major traditions ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024
- it has retained to modern times. It lies in a lush valley in the Jebel Akhdar ... first the Greeks and then the Romans, it was a target of the Arab conquest ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- A bagel (Yiddish yi-Hebr|בײגל) beygl) sometimes beigel, is a bread ... to bagels, but are somewhat bigger, have a wider hole, and are drier and ...17 KB (2,751 words) - 05:40, 26 August 2023
- A Gentile is a non-Jew, the term being a common English translation ... Law also provided protection for Gentiles who settled among the Jews. The ...20 KB (3,103 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 – August 9, 1942) was a German philosopher ... intensified, she was secretly transferred to a convent in the Netherlands ...16 KB (2,393 words) - 20:38, 8 August 2023
- 039; and Heroes' Remembrance Authority) is Israel's official memorial ... The origin of the name is from a Biblical verse (Isaiah, chapter 56 ...14 KB (2,168 words) - 09:59, 22 May 2023
- ; April 4, 1931 in Kaunas, Lithuania – June 12, 1999 in Chicago ... A brilliant scholar, he invested greatly in his students, brought ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 00:03, 9 January 2023
- from William Shakespeare's Othello, a play concerning a biracial couple.]] Intermarriage is the marriage between two people of different backgrounds ...21 KB (3,227 words) - 12:55, 7 February 2023
- Moses Mendelssohn (September 6, 1729 – January 4, 1786) was a German ... In 1783, Mendelssohn published Jerusalem, a forcible plea for freedom of ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 16:58, 10 November 2022
- was born in Galicia, later immigrated as a Zionist to Israel, and died ... Agnon, called by many "a man of unquestionable genius" and ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 20:00, 21 April 2023
- ==Who is a Jew?== According to traditional Jewish law, someone is considered ... *[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/who-is-a-jew Who is a Jew? ...32 KB (4,804 words) - 20:55, 4 October 2022
- Masada (a romanization of the Hebrew מצדה, Mitzada, from מצודה ... are very difficult. The top of the plateau is flat and rhomboid-shaped, about ...14 KB (2,172 words) - 16:17, 7 November 2022
- The book of 4 Maccabees is a homily or philosophic discourse praising ... clear, reasonable thinking about true virtue is the key to overcoming every ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- Shavuot (or Shavuos; "Weeks") is a Jewish holiday that occurs ... In the Hebrew Bible, Shavuot is also called the Feast of Weeks, the ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 13:22, 27 January 2023
- philosopher, theologian, and historian, and a pioneer of modern Jewish scholarship ... during an ongoing historical process, became a central theme of later Jewish ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- Herodias, also Herodiade (c. 15 B.C.E. – after 39 C.E.), was a Jewish ... whom she lived in Rome and Judea. While on a visit to Rome, her brother ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 11:05, 22 January 2024
- humorous rants. King became well-known as a Jewish comedian and satirist ... Medical Center in Jerusalem, established a scholarship fund for American ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 04:26, 17 June 2023
