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Condemnation of Women Singing in Cafés on the Sabbath
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Along the quay, near the White Tower, there is a café where two young Jewish girls from Salonica sing every day, including Shabbat. In truth we do not find their behavior as low as that of other young…

Contributor:

Yeremiah (El Yoron)

Places:

Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1900

Subjects:

Piety, Sin, Sabbath, Civil disobedience, Cities

Categories:

Political Culture, Journalism
Seder nashim (Order of Women): On Welcoming the Sabbath
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Near sunset one shall light a Shabbat candle and before saying the blessing it is necessary to say “I am not receiving Shabbat” even if one already lit it, until it is Shabbat. And then…

Contributor:

Meir Benveniste

Places:

Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

ca. 1565

Subjects:

Holidays, Sabbath, Women, Prayer, Piety

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Prayer & Liturgy