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Many good, blessed and pleasant years, may they surely come to you and to your head and hairs! To the hands of my lovely, dear, beloved husband, the pious and prudent, worthy R. Loeb, may his Rock and…
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Sarel bat Moses Gutman
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1619
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To the Most Serene Prince and to the Most Honorable and Wise Senators of the Venetian Republic Free Wisdom befits a Free Republic, most Serene Prince, most honorable Senators, whom Freedom of their…
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Isaac Cardoso
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Verona, Venice (Verona, Italy)
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1673
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The main foundation that you propose for your doctrine consists of the sin of Adam, in which you believe sin was perpetrated by all of the human species, which was contained in Adam, and of the sole…
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Isaac Orobio de Castro
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1670
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Abraham Menaḥem Kohen Porto to the prince and magnate, chieftain and nobleman, our teacher R. Menaḥem Azariah de Fano—may his Rock and Redeemer preserve him—greetings to his glorious excellency!
Beh…
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Abraham Menaḥem Kohen Porto
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Cremona, Spanish Empire (Cremona, Italy)
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ca. 1574
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During my first few years as the lone Prog M. P., I found myself confronted by a series of vicious laws designed to undermine civil rights and to intensify discrimination…
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Helen Suzman
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New York, United States of America
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1993
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I—a Jewess—am by definition not a member of the species, or: why should a Jewess not have problems with public assistance and with her children? The postwar German Jew, to the extent that such a being…
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Esther Dischereit
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Berlin, Germany
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1994
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I am humbled by this nomination and so grateful to Al Gore for choosing me. And I want you to know tonight that I will work my heart out to make Al Gore the next president of the United States.
As I…
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Joseph Lieberman
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Stamford, United States of America
Date:
2000
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Some time ago, as I sat down to work in a Tel Aviv café in the area where I live, an elderly man suddenly approached me. “You are the son of Eliahu Shaharabani, of blessed memory,” he said, half…
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Yehouda Shenhav
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2003
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On occasion I have been asked: How can one so rooted in Jewish tradition, so at home with halakhic prescriptions and proscriptions…
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Blu Greenberg
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1981
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The range of my movement between “here” and “there” was supported by imagination and sustained by difference. In going to a women’s seminary, I remained…
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Tamar El-Or
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1998