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I was honored to receive your request to express my opinion on the current question of electing women to the Jewish representative assembly…
Contributor:
Abraham Isaac Kook
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1919
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5703—Because of its horrors, all the preceding years of Hitler will pale in people’s memory, even 5677 [1917] and 5665 [1905], and even 5408 [1648] and 5252 [1492]. In none of these peak years of the…
Contributor:
Zalman Shazar
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Mandate Palestine (Israel)
Date:
1943
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In what sense is Judaism racist? Does it in general recognize the “holiness” of race and if so, what practical deductions have Jews made from such a theory?
In connection with the Nazi racist…
Contributor:
Hayim Greenberg
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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This book seeks to unfold before the reader the scroll of Jewish valor, in both Israel and the diaspora, from the destruction of the Hebrew state to the harbingers of the renaissance of the…
Contributor:
Israel Halperin
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Palestine)
Date:
1941
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[ . . . ] If against the assimilationist the American spirit affirms the right to be different, against the segregationist it affirms the right of free association of the different with one another…
Contributor:
Horace M. Kallen
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1942
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Social Activities and Ethnic Group Maintenance
One other concept in addition to the compromise with secularism is required before the problem under study will become entirely clear. This is the status…
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Marshall Sklare
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1955
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The Falashas of Ethiopia have attracted considerable attention because of their Judaic religious practice, yet the relationship of their liturgy to normative Judaism remains underdetermined. This…
Contributor:
Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Places:
Cambridge, United States of America
Date:
1986
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Your Holiness,
As the Chief Rabbi of this community, whose history goes back thousands of years, I wish to express to you my intense satisfaction at the gesture you have wished to carry out today…
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Elio Toaff
Places:
Rome, Italy
Date:
1986
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Mr. Abraham Galante, editor of La Vara, has recently developed a plan for Jewish colonization in the Sudan. Although he treats the old proposal to settle Jews in Uganda as a point of departure…
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Abraham Galante
Places:
Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1906
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We must emphasize the impact Jews are having on the town of Jaffa. Those who knew Jaffa in the past can testify that the town owes a lot to the Jews; its appearance has changed dramatically over the…
Contributor:
Ze’ev Smilansky
Places:
Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1906