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Land of Israel
Rachel Cohen-Kagan was one of the most prominent activists for the advancement of women’s rights in the young State of Israel. Her efforts led to her being among the signatories of the Declaration of Independence
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Judaism
Learn about a Kabbalistic tradition that will tell you if you have been sealed in the Book of Life or Death following the High Holy Days.
You really should listen to your mother when she tells you not to read at the dinner table…
What is the Freudian complex behind the origins of this mysterious instrument? What is the shofar’s connection to the High Holy Days? And does it have anything to do with music?
Diaspora
The Worms Mahzor, written in the late 13th century, was spared the destruction of the Holocaust after it was smuggled away from the Gestapo and hidden in one of the city’s cathedral towers.
The story of the rogue Israeli pilot, failed politician and hamburger-joint owner Abie Nathan, who decided to “hop over” to Egypt in the interests of promoting peace.
The annual Shamayim festival held in Třebíč honors Antonín Kalina who was posthumously awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations.
Meet the artist who risked time in prison by drawing the massacre of the Jews in the Land of Israel in 1929.
Meet Sally and Rebeka Bein who ran an educational institution for Jewish children with special needs during the Holocaust, and were eventually killed along with the children by the Nazis.
Yakov Polyakov was a rare breed. Luckily for us, this fascinating figure also kept a diary.
“One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth,” so goes the axiom of a sage of Alchemy, Mary the Jewess, quoted throughout the writings of the magical-science and as mysterious as the alchemical process itself.
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