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10. And now, with the Lord’s help, we will return to our primary question: We asked you to tell us, according to the opinion of the kabbalists, to whom do we say our prayers, and make all of our…
The Molad is Wednesday evening, 10 minutes and 9 halakim on 6 [6:10.9 pm]
Iyar 5675—April 1915—Taurus—(29 days)
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I do not believe in free love.
There is legal marriage, an institution based on ideas and pretenses.
A legally married wife you can divorce, but where will you run away from free love?
As for…
To the editor of La Bos del Pueblo:
I am a Jewish girl born in Russia who came to America eight years ago. Although I am not remarkably well-educated, I have always wanted to marry a well-educated boy…
We are becoming so accustomed to the remarkable enterprise of the authorities of the Temple, East End Jewry’s playhouse in Commercial Road, that we cease to wonder at anything they now attempt in…
This terracotta Hanukkah lamp from Cabilia (?), Algeria, is decorated with painted black triangular shapes (possibly representing humanoid figures) on a background of yellow, with edging in reddish…
This silver Torah pointer from Poland is inscribed in Hebrew: “The hand [i.e., pointer] of Joseph Halevi, crowned with success, donated in the name of his son Abraham on the eve of R[osh] H[ashanah]…
Fringes/tassels on garments of “Asiatics.” In Egyptian art, tassels are a typical feature of the garb of Asiatics, the peoples of Canaan/Israel and Syria, as in this mural from the tomb of Pharaoh…
Sol Libsohn co-founded The Photo League, a socially conscious photographers’ collective, around the time he took this photograph. It captures a moment in the daily life of the people of a tenement…
Hybrid creatures with four wings supporting deity in Persian seal impression, 6th or 5th century BCE. Biblical imagery and ancient Near Eastern iconography offer some parallels to the creatures…
