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Did you go to a meldar as a child? Have any of you been so lucky and blessed? I am sure that, seeing these two questions, you will all object that you had no idea what a meldar was and that you went…
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Alexander Benghiat
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1920
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Solomon Nunes Carvalho
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ca. 1850
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Artist Unknown
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
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1858–1859
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This bronze medal by Jacques Elion commemorates the opening of a Jewish orphanage in Amsterdam. The Hebrew inscription reads: “Orphanage.” It was customary for Jewish communities to issue medals to…
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Jacques Elion
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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1865
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Solomon Nunes Carvalho
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Utah, United States of America
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1854
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Camille Pissarro
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1877
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For a while there was quiet—a total, final quiet in the room. Then the chairman stirred, beetling his heavy eyebrows, and spoke with gruff, ironical severity: “Comrade Yudka, I call you to order! If…
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Chaim Hazaz
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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1942
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“Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. The religious sense prays as the intellectual organ thinks.” Prayer, to carry this saying of Novalis a step further, is a significant…
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Nahum N. Glatzer
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New York, United States of America
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1947
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In order to survive, a newspaper needs numerous subscribers, the help of the community, paid publications, the aid of the friends of education, the generosity of the nation, and the support of the…
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Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1877
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We will briefly mention several of his more important military expeditions. In the year 1731, Mr. Boeyé, Officer of the Christian Citizens Militia, received an order from the Council to carry out a…
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David de Isaac Cohen Nassy
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Paramaribo, Dutch Colonial Empire
(Paramaribo, Suriname)
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1788