Monday, June 27, 2016

How Did Yiddish Words Make Their Way into German?

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Philologos for Mosaic A centuries-old tale of complicated, ambivalent, and, sometimes, covertly intimate relationships between a largely ...
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Monday, June 20, 2016

The Jewish Connection to Jerusalem

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Remembering Jerusalem permeates Jewish belief, thought, and practice in profound and powerful ways. By Rabbi Ed Snitkoff for MyJewishLe...
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Monday, June 13, 2016

The Mendacious Maps of Palestinian “Loss”

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Shany Mor for The Tower Anti-Israel activists often use doctored maps to show Israel’s supposed malfeasance over the past century. Such ...
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Monday, June 6, 2016

The Hebrew Revival Was No Miracle

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Dara Horn for Mosaic It took tremendous toil to produce the cultural rebirth of the Hebrew language. Let us give thanks to the toilers—and...
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Monday, May 30, 2016

Film scored by Eric Clapton depicts child of survivors’ three days in Auschwitz

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By Lisa Klug for The Times of Israel    Filmmaker Philippe Mora talks about his three visits to his mother’s ‘hell,’ which he documented ...
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Monday, May 23, 2016

Ancient Jerusalem: The Village, the Town, the City

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Hershel Shanks as published in Biblical Archaeology Review, May/June 2016 How Many Jews Lived in Ancient Jerusalem? It’s made such an en...
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Monday, May 16, 2016

Scientists Reveal Jewish History's Forgotten Turkish Roots

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DAVID KEYS for The Jewish Voice Israeli-born geneticist believes the Turkish villages of Iskenaz, Eskenaz and Ashanaz were part of the or...
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