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Purim and Yom Kippur appear to be complete opposites but the ancient rabbis say they are really two sides of the same coin.

Sometimes it is by dressing as someone else that we reveal our truest selves.

The biblical Book of Lamentations is chanted in a unique style, with each verse beginning in a major mode and ending in its relative minor mode.

The pilgrimage festivals, ritual purity and cosmological speculation about the origins of the universe.

Walking through fire.

Asenath Barazani (also spelled Asnat or Osnat) led a yeshiva in 17th century Kurdistan.

Unrepentant thieves.

Staying connected.

Once Europe's largest Jewish community, Ukraine has had a major influence on the development of Ashkenazi Jewish culture.

Close encounters of the fourth kind.