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The Jewish View of Sin

Each person has the inclination to do both good and bad.

Masada

The site where hundreds of Jews held out against a Roman siege has become a modern symbol of Jewish heroism.

The Jews of France

The third-largest Jewish community in the world has undergone alternating periods of achievement and persecution.

The Jews of Argentina

The largest Jewish community in Latin America has struggled through the economic and political upheavals of the 20th century.

Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai

The grave of this second century rabbi is the site of a large annual pilgrimage.

Ask the Expert: Can I Convert to Judaism and Still Be Christian?

Judaism and Christianity profess beliefs that are incompatible with each other.

The Jews of Russia

The territories of the former Russian Empire were the cradle of Jewish modernity, the birthplace of Zionism and Jewish socialism, and a major center of the Hasidic movement.

Natan Sharansky

A former Soviet dissident, Sharansky spent nine years in prison and became the face of the movement to free Jews living under communism.

Is Abracadabra a Jewish word?

Widely believed to derive from Aramaic, the phrase appears nowhere in classical Jewish sources.

The Jews of England

Home to some of the worst antisemitic incidents in European history, British Jews have also found England to be one of the most philo-semitic countries of modern times.

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