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Hear, O Israel, descendants of holy ones: see that newcomers have recently arrived intending to make grapes, but instead have produced wild grapes [see Isaiah 5:2]. There is no local foundation for…
Let the elders rejoice and the discerning be glad, the students and rabbis be happy, and the princes and the officers, and the wealthy and the needy exult, with the poor and those lacking sustenance…
Twenty-three Jews came to America in 1654 and some five million live in the United States today. Though this seems like a long story, it is but a short chapter in the history of Judaism. Anything…
At a meeting of the Elders and Parnassim this day Mr Heyman Levy paid the fine for refusing serving Parnass Last year, it was at the same time voted by…
On the south it is separated from the synagogue of the Polish and German Jews by a branch of the River Amstel; on the west it faces the opulent Casa de los lázaros [hospice for the poor]; on the north…
On the night of 20 Iyar 5503 [May 14, 1743], the sad news was announced regarding the death of the most exemplary ḥazan [cantor] R. Sem[uel] Rod[rigue]s Mendes, in…
The purpose of the Kol Nidrei proclamation is to forgive those—and tragically there have been many of them—who throughout history have, under threat of torture or death, been forced to renounce the…
