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About miracles:  Reflections on the concept of miracles for Hannukah

Once upon a time there was a man – says the Talmud – whose wife died in labor. The man was so poor that he didn’t have the money to hire a wet nurse for the new baby. And then a miracle happened. According to the Talmud, the man grew breasts bursting with milk. Rabbi Yosef said: How great is the man for whom this miracle was performed. Rabbi Abaye replied: Moreover, how terrible is the man for whom the natural order of Genesis was transformed. The story in Talmud Shabbat 53b presents two approaches in Jewish thought to the[]

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A Complex Tale: How Agnon Received a Bittersweet Gift in His Final Years

December 10, 1966 – 53 years ago. The clock ticks past 16:00, as the crowd waits in Stockholm’s opulent concert hall for the Nobel Prize winners. The honored guests are waiting anxiously for four stars. Three will herald the end of Shabbat. The fourth is the shining star of Hebrew literature, Shai Agnon. Soon after Shabbat ends, a posh car pulls up to the Grand Hotel. An elderly couple sits in the back seat in their finest clothes. Agnon, wearing a large black kipah, pulls out an electric shaver to quickly remove a day’s worth of stubble. The woman, Esther[]

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All in the Family: The Debate that Ripped Apart 18th-Century Polish Jewry

Winter 1759. Some 2000 Jews – men, women, and children – gathered in the central square in front of Lvov, Poland’s cathedral. All but the wailing infants were mum. The frigid bone-penetrating cold was beginning to claim victims. The occasional sound of a body hitting the ground was heard. Elisha Shor – of the famous Rohatyn Shors – was among the Jews in the square. He begged the cathedral’s leaders to give at least the elderly and the babies food and shelter. He told them that the Council of Four Lands, the central Rabbinic authority of Polish Jewry, had issued[]

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Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot’s Annual Gala – NYC 2019

“Essen with the Best: A Night to Celebrate All Things Food” – Museum of the Jewish people at Beit Hatfutsot’s Annual Gala took place the evening of December 2 2019 at the Ziegfeld Ballroom and honored our dear friend Joan Nathan. It was an evening to remember featuring the best and the brightest in the world of Jewish food. Joan curated a delicious meal for the evening, and guests were treated to a one-of-a-kind food extravaganza, including interactive food displays, remarks from Michael Solomonov, food stories from Boris Fishman, Mark Federman, and Dani Dayan, and a silent auction featuring high-end[]

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La Amante, el Comisario y el Químico: Tres Personajes Judíos del Lado Errado de la Historia

La Amante, el Comisario y el Químico: Tres Personajes Judíos del Lado Errado de la Historia MARGHERITA SARFATTI Amante de Mussolini “Hay dos mujeres que me aman locamente, pero yo no las amo. Una es bastante simple, pero ella tiene un alma noble y generosa. La otra es hermosa, pero tiene una naturaleza astuta y codiciosa; ella es tacaña, de hecho. Por supuesto, ésta es judía”. Benito Mussolini. La destacada intelectual judía y crítica de arte Margherita Sarfatti (1880 – 1961), no sólo era la amante de Benito Mussolini, sino también una de sus colaboradoras más cercanas, que desempeñó un[]

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“Essen with the Best: A Night to Celebrate All Things Food”

“Essen with the Best: A Night to Celebrate All Things Food,” which will take place the evening of December 2 at the Ziegfeld Ballroom and honor our dear friend Joan Nathan. It will be an evening to remember featuring the best and the brightest in the world of Jewish food. Joan will curate a delicious meal for the evening, and guests will be treated to a one-of-a-kind food extravaganza, including interactive food displays, remarks from Michael Solomonov, food stories from Boris Fishman, Mark Federman, and Dani Dayan, and a silent auction featuring high-end items from a variety of chefs, restaurants,[]

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Far from the Eye, Close to the Heart: The Fascinating History of the Beta Israel Community in Ethiopia

Historical research indicates that there were Jews in ancient Ethiopia, but their unknown origin and history has inspired many varying theories. The debate among researchers focuses mainly on the quality of the ethnic affiliation between those ancient Jews and the Jews who were first documented in the 9th-Century writings of Eldad HaDani and in Ethiopian sources in the 14th-Century. The Jewish community in Ethiopia, Beta Israel, cites various traditions as to their origins. One tradition maintains that Jews arrived in Ethiopia in waves, mainly via the Nile and its tributaries. Other traditions associate the Jews’ arrival in Ethiopia with the[]

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