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Paraḥ mateh Aharon (The Staff of Aaron Had Sprouted)
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The rich and honorable Moshe haCohen, resident of the city Castoria may God protect it, says as follows: he has been given a bad wife, and that during their marital life…

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Aaron ha-Kohen Peraḥia

Places:

Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1701

Subjects:

Life cycle, Marriage, Divorce, Nonmonogamy, Muslim-Jewish relations

Categories:

Law, Responsa, Reportage
Mishpat u-tsedakah be-Ya‘akov (Judgment and Righteousness [Are] in Jacob)
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It has been a long, sorrowful time that Mr. Solomon Ha-Kohen of Tangier (may God protect him) has been living here with us in Fez (may God protect it), upset angry, and bitter. We did not know what…

Contributor:

Jacob Ibn Tsur

Places:

Fez, Morocco (Fes, Morocco)

Date:

1744

Subjects:

Marriage, Adultery, Justice system, Community, Muslim-Jewish relations

Categories:

Law, Responsa
The War for Our Nation
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[By “war”] I mean concrete war—rather than a war of words or an incomplete war of demonstrations. I am not in denial regarding the existence of these words or those demonstrations, and neither do I…

Contributor:

Murād Faraj

Places:

Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)

Date:

1912

Subjects:

War, Language and linguistics, Muslim-Jewish relations, Arab-Jewish relations, Ethics

Categories:

Political Culture, Law, Religion & Theology