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girlactionfigure · 1 year

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Here’s some history behind one of America’s favorite breakfast foods!

Note: There are also different myths/stories of how bagels came to be which are pretty interesting to read too!

Sources: The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York. The Bagel: the Surprising History

of a Modest Bread.

Dani Ishai Behan

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#JewishAndProud #JewishPrideAlways #Jewish #Bagel #JewishHistory #JewishBagel

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malenastefano · 5 months

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Jewish artifacts found at an excavation site in Tayma, Saudi Arabia. Tayma was a Jewish oasis during the pre-Islamic era. It was the hometown of Jewish poet Shmuel Ben Adiya, famous for his unconditional loyalty towards Prince Imru al Qais in the 6th century.

Tayma, along with Khaybar were the two most important oasis in the Hejaz region (modern Saudi Arabia) that used to have a strong jewish presence until the fall of Khaybar in 628 (4388 - 4389 in the hebrew calendar) when the first muslims conquered the fortress and expelled most of the jewish population.

#archaeology #jewisharchaeology #judaism #jewish #jewishhistory #jews #history #ancienthistory #ancient #saudiarabia #saudihistory #khaybar #tayma #artifacts #preislamic #israel #israeli

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eretzyisrael · 9 months

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He founded a yeshiva in Troyes and thousands of students came to learn from him. He lived through the First Crusades and watched his friends and family murdered by Crusaders on their murderous path to the Holy Land. This influenced his commentary. He passed away at the age of 65 due to health problems in Troyes.

Rashi’s commentary became famous due to his synthesis of both literal and drash (form of Biblical exegesis) interpretations of the Torah. He uses simple language to explain the meanings of words while including both classic Rabbinic readings and his own interpretations.

His easy to read style and conciseness led to his writings spreading all over Northern Europe during his lifetime. His sons and grandsons expanded on his teachings and his commentary also influenced many commentaries and books written throughout Jewish history.

Rashi’s commentary on the Torah was first printed in 1475. Since the 1520’s, all Babylonian Talmuds have been published with Rashi's commentary in the margins. Rashi’s Biblical commentary extended even past the Jewish community and was translated into Latin and German.

#judaism #jewish #history #onthisday #jewishhistory #rashi #icon

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byfaithmedia · 1 month

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Jewish history comes alive as we see Jewish treasure on the Arch of Titus in Rome.

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quodnonnecatemunit · 9 months

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The Jewish Museum of Rome is located in the Great Synagogue monumental complex. Walking across the different rooms you can see a reconstruction of Jewish life in Rome since the earliest settlement in the second century before the Common Era.

The Jewish community has been living continuously in Rome for 2,200 years, making it one of the oldest communities outside of Israel. The exhibits on display in the museum date back principally to the ghetto period (1555-1870) and all come from the original ‘Five Synagogues’ building. The rich collection includes liturgical furnishings, manuscripts, incunabula, historical documents, records and marble works. Since 1960, the museum displayed its treasures in a single room, but the study and cataloguing of all the works required a larger display area. The new exhibit was inaugurated in 2005. The museum covers an area of 700 square meters and unfolds through seven rooms with different themes. It offers a reconstruction of the Jewish people life in Rome and shows us how they managed to integrate into the socio-economic structure of the city, while they maintained their own identity.

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princetonuniversitypress · 1 year

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The modern reader, conditioned by the projection of today’s orthodox Jewish values back on antiquity and particularly on the rabbis, expects ancient rabbis to express sustained outrage and disapproval towards a place where nudity and licentiousness prevailed. It is easy to assume that ancient rabbis would offer detailed and strict decrees, dismissing the baths and prohibiting the crowds from attending. However, such judgments are not to be found. Instead, ancient rabbis enthusiastically patronized the bathhouse and shared its amenities and pleasures, just like all other groups during their era. Rabbinic literature supported by archaeological remains shows that Jews built bathhouses with no hesitation and rabbis frequented them with ease and comfort. Read more from author Yaron Z. Eliav.

#JewishHistory #RabbinicLiterature #Rabbis #ReligiousStudies #JewishStudies #princetonuniversitypress #Princeton University press #books

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rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world · 2 years

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Anyone who calls lgbtq+ folks “gr👀mers” deserves to be confronted with the fact that this was a Nazi talking point. Among the first books targeted for burning by the Nazis were about gender and sexuality, including the groundbreaking work of gay Jewish doctor Magnus Hirschfeld (pictured in photo 2 having a Christmas party with his transgender friends). It’s unclear if anyone repeating this lie will care about this being a well-worn fascist talking point, but nonetheless it’s imperative that respond to attacks on lgbtq identity. They are the opening salvo of fascism. Christofascists would rather lgbtq+ people live in fear because then they can go back to their children believing there’s no future for them if they are lgbtq+ themselves. To them, “gr👀ming” is simply knowing that lgbtq people exist and can live happy, normal lives. #nazis #fascism #christofascism #rightwing #homophobia #gender #humansexuality #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtqia #weimargermany #magnushirschfeld #transhistory #transgender #gayhistory #lgbthistory #queerhistory #transphobia #propaganda #jewishhistory #shoah #holocaust #nazism #gop #republican #trumpism https://www.instagram.com/p/ChU4aLguz4k/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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monriatitans · 1 year

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QUOTE OF THE DAY Monday, December 26, 2022

"Let us burn bright as the gentle epitome of ahava. Let us live life as a walking and talking menorah." - Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

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Quote choice inspired by Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Day: hanukkiah.

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lutnistas · 1 year

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Dohány Street Synagogue ( Budapest / Hungary )

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bestwinbookprinting · 1 year

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girlactionfigure · 24 days

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#onthisday, 2018, Sara Ginaite Rubinson z”l passed away. She was a world renowned author and academic, a legendary resistance fighter in Lithuania against the Nazis during WWII. After the war she eventually joined her daughters in Canada and wrote several books in Lithuanian. Her most famous work translated into english was “Resistance and Survival: The Jewish Community in Kaunas 1941–1944.”

Sara was born to Yosef Ginas and Rebecca Virovitch, in Kaunas, Lithuania on March 17th, 1924. Raised in a successful Jewish family, Sara was on the verge of graduating from high school when, in 1941, her life was interrupted by the Nazi invasion of Lithuania. Three of her uncles were subsequently killed in the Kaunas Pogrom that year, and she, along with the rest of her family, were placed in the Kovno Ghetto. That was when she decided to fight back and join the Anti-Fascist Fighting Organization, a resistance of fighters against the Nazis.

After marrying Misha Rubinson, they escaped together in the winter of 1943-44, she created a Jewish Partisan unit called, “Death to the Occupiers.” She would often bravely venture back to the ghettos to rescue people, helping them escape to safety. Both she and her husband participated in the liberation of the Kaunas and the Vilnius ghettos, although the Nazis had already wiped out most of the region’s Jewish population. Only her own sister and brother-in-law survived of the rest of her family.

After the war she became a professor of political economics at Vilnius University. After her husband died in 1977, she emigrated to Canada where her two daughters Anya and Tanya were already living. Sara became an adjunct professor at York University and was frequently invited to lecture throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, and Israel. She gave an inspirational lecture in 2013 in Toronto, titled “History and Personal Memory: the Beginning of the Holocaust in Lithuania.”

On April 2nd, 2018, Sara died in her home at the age of 94, the 17th of the Jewish month of Nissan. May her light and legacy shine brightly for Jews and all oppressed people of the world for generations to come.

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eretzyisrael · 1 year

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22 Adar - The Jews of Hollywood - 1927

On this day in 1927, The Fox Film Corporation gave its first demonstration of the process that it would use for a new feature, Movietone News, that would allow filmgoers to see and hear scenes from recent events. Fifty reporters were escorted into Fox-Case's New York studios at 10:00 that morning and filmed. Four hours later, the same group saw and heard themselves when the film of the press conference was screened.

Fox Film Corporation was founded by William Fox. Born Wilheim Fuchs along with the founders of MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros., Universal, and Colombia Picture he was part of a small group of top-level Jewish-born entrepreneurs who fashioned Hollywood. Besides their professions, they practically all fit the same profile: 2nd generation Americans from observant Eastern European Jewish homes all abandoning the traditions of their youth.

It was not a coincidence that the first talking movie out of Hollywood was the Jazz Singer, produced by Warner Bros. The movie is the story of the son of a Jewish cantor, played by Al Jolson, whose father kicks him out of the house because he wants to become a jazz singer. In the process, he falls in love with a non-Jewish woman. The “happy ending” is when he returns home to chant the Kol Nidrei service with his mother and gentile girlfriend watching admirably, and subsequently, his mother comes to watch him perform on Broadway. The movie was quite auto-biographical for Jolson and the group of Jewish filmmakers. The movie was later remade twice. Once starring Jerry Lewis and once Neil Diamond. Again, quite an autobiographical role.

Rabbi Pinchas L. Landis

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byfaithmedia · 8 days

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The Lord told women of the terrible suffering ahead for Jerusalem and Judea, and his prophecy was fulfilled and this is the proof.

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bharatjhujhunwala777 · 4 months

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𝐈𝐬 𝐉𝐞𝐰𝐬’ 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐚𝐭𝐞

In Genesis 15:18, God makes a covenant with Abraham, promising his descendants a vast land. The term "Zera," is used for the biological descendants. But then, soon, in Genesis 17:5 God declares Abraham to be the father of nations without mentioning "Zera." Thus, it prompts speculation on whether the covenant extends solely to his biological descendants to all nations.

Genesis 17:8 again intensifies the debate as God promises the land to Abraham's "Zera" (offspring). But this may include moral descendants following Abraham's teachings.

𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝟏𝟕:𝟗 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝.

The speakers grapple with the dual meanings of "Zera," questioning if the covenant is exclusive to biological lineage or includes those embracing Abraham's moral principles. Further, in Genesis 17:9 God says to Abraham: “you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.” But there is no giving of land here.

Again, Genesis 22:17 promises blessings without specifying land inheritance.

𝐈𝐧 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐁𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐆𝐨𝐝'𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐦 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬.

𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐧 :- http://www.commonprophets.com/jews-exclusivity.../

𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐛𝐞: https://youtu.be/AHT889mk1F0?si=68OnB17tVSThfTgP

𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 l𝐢𝐧𝐤

:-https://www.instagram.com/commonprophets2018/

𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 :

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bharat-jhunjhunwala-437b524a/

𝐌𝐞𝐰𝐞 : https://mewe.com/bharatjhunjhunw/posts

𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐫𝐚: https://www.quora.com/profile/Bharat-Jhunjhunwala-6

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its-suanneschafer-author · 6 months

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ICYMI: Book Review of #StarCrossed by #HeatherDuneMacadam and #SimonWorrall. A Romeo and Juliet true story set in Paris in WW2. https://suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-star-crossed/

#WW2History #Genocide #HolocaustHistory #JewishHistory #Paris #EuropeanHistory #Nazis #WW2NonFiction #AmReading #Bookstagram

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beyondthetruth0 · 6 months

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Sharing an insightful article on the historical event of the Siege of Masada. The story of Masada is a poignant reminder of our past and the lengths people have gone to in their fight for freedom.

#Jewish #Israel #Masada #JewishHistory

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