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Kashrut
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Setting up a kosher home is not at all difficult once one gets the hang of what one is and is not allowed to do and eat. There is sometimes an unfortunate tendency among those just beginning to keep…

Contributor:

The Jewish Catalog

Places:

Philadelphia, United States of America

Date:

1973

Subjects:

Ritual & observance, Kashrut, Education, Food and drink

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, History, Lists & Catalogues
My First Goose
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Savitsky, the commander of the Sixth Division, rose when he saw me, and I was taken aback by the beauty of his gigantic body. He rose—his breeches purple, his crimson cap cocked to the side, his…

Contributor:

Isaac Babel

Places:

Odessa, USSR (Odesa, Ukraine)

Date:

1924

Subjects:

Military, Education, Communism, Food and drink

Categories:

Literature, Fiction
Nursery Rhymes
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[May] your mornings [be] blessed, [May] your life [be] long, [May] your enemies [be] shrouded, dead, [May] your [hot] breakfasts [be] poured, cooled.

Contributor:

The Jews of Zakho, Kurdistan

Places:

Zakho, Ottoman Empire (Zakho, Iraq)

Date:

17th Century

Subjects:

Children, Education, Parenthood, Food and drink, Leisure

Categories:

Literature, Popular Poetry, Folklore
Advice and Further Reflections
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When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. For He has no pleasure in fools; what you vow, fulfill. It is better not to vow at all than to vow and not fulfill. [ . . . ] If…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE

Subjects:

Wisdom, Food and drink, Death, Education, Ethics

Categories:

Literature, Wisdom Literature