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Built in 1568, the Paradesi Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in India, as well as in the entire British Commonwealth. The land on which it was built was a gift from the Rajah of Cochin, Paraja, so…
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Cochin, Kingdom of Cochin
(Ernakulam, India)
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1568
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The Kadavumbagam Synagogue received its name (which means “by the side of the landing place”) from its peripheral location at the border of the Cochin Jewish neighborhood, where it served the Malabari…
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Cochin, Kingdom of Cochin
(Ernakulam, India)
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1539–1544, 17th–18th century
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The Exodus was declared fit and ready for the run to Palestine.
Ari set the sailing time as the morning after the Chanukah party which the management of the Dome Hotel had arranged on…
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Leon Uris
Places:
New York City, United States of America
(Israel)
Date:
1958
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Siona Benjamin
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2000
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54. There are two paths toward faith; one is the absolutely true one, and the other is the rational one. The latter changes in accordance with the times. There are occasions when, if…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1920
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Saul [upon returning from smiting the Amalekites]. Jonathan and his other sons.
Saul:
My fury still burns within my heart like a flame of fire!
Even after I have smitten him, I have found no…
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Joseph Ha-Efrati
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Vienna, Austrian Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1826
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Built in the early fifteenth century and rebuilt in 1614 following a fire, the Chendamangalam Synagogue served members of the Malabari Jewish community, descendants of Cochin’s earliest Jews, who are…
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Cochin, Kingdom of Cochin
(Ernakulam, India)
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1614
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Elhanan Wasserman
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1936