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When breakfast was over, I had to go to the synagogue, rain or shine, for it was Saturday morning. I used to sit next to Bernard and Simon. We would wear our skull caps and whisper to each other…
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Dannie Abse
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1954
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The worst conflagration is that which flares up from the depths. All the water in the world can’t extinguish such a fire before it has gutted everything in its way, because by the time it has been…
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Mordekhai Feierberg
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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How goodly are the tents of Jacob, the dwelling-places of Israel (Numbers 24:5), the synagogues and study houses in Jerusalem, that from morning to evening and from midnight to morning are never…
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Unknown
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1628
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Are we always and in all circumstances united with our surroundings, so that only the synagogue, rather than society, attests to separation?
Do not believe that in such unity and cooperation I mean…
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Abraham Wertheim
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1893
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Jews, in the past celebrated for the ability to understand all things, are now in danger of being unable to understand anything at all culturally, for they do not have self-awareness. Without such…
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Aleksander Voronel
Date:
1972
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Duality manifests itself in all things, but in nothing is this two-foldness more plainly seen than in woman’s nature.
The weaker sex physically, it is the stronger spiritually, it having been said…
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Ray Frank
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1893
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The purpose in view was, as may easily be gathered from the essays themselves, to bring under the notice of the English public a type of men produced by the Synagogue of the…
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Solomon Schechter
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Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
(Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Date:
1896
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When we say that we want to remain Jews, and raise our children as Jews, we run the risk of being befogged by one of those meaningless phrases in which the Jews of this generation are particularly…
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Samson Benderly
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1911
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Everyone who passes among those numbered from twenty years old and upward shall give his tribute to the Lord.
. . . As we number the congregation and lament that the young do not always take the…
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David de Sola Pool
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1912
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The task of this book was determined by its being part of the Grundriß [der Gesamtwissenschaft des Judentums; Fundamental Study toward the Comprehensive Knowledge of Judaism] series. Based on…
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Ismar Elbogen
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1913