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LATEST ARTICLES: HISTORY
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Ezekiel in Iran
A synagogue in today's Jerusalem bears the name Hajji Yehezkel.
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Iraqi Jews
The Iraqi Jewish Archive, as it became known, is both proud and pitiful.
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Moritz Steinschneider
A master of the book.
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Was Lenin Jewish?
Exploring the ancestry of the mastermind of the Bolshevik revolution.
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India
A history of the Baghdadi Jews--who actually lived in India, not Baghdad.
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Shabbat Menu Roundup—Comfort Food Edition
For me, February is prime comfort food month, so this Shabbat I’m thinking about yummy comfort foods I can serve to my guests. Tomato soup is the c......
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Deciding How We Fit into Jewish Day School
Earlier this week, the AVI CHAI Foundation together with the Steinhardt Foundation posed a question to the Jewish community: What would make day schoo......
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To Subway Nosh, or Not
My mother always used to say that one of her favorite qualities of New Yorkers was that they ate everywhere: walking around on the sidewalk, on the su......
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Tu Bishvat and the Spiritual Meaning of Tax Season
As I write today’s blog entry on Tu Bishvat, I’m sitting in my home office looking at the piles of paper that I need to sort and file in order to begi......
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Free Jewish-Books Summer Camp!
When I was a kid, I got sent to a sports camp outside of Philadelphia....
