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Jewish Halakha Although the Torah makes frequent mention of the obligation of Shabbat observance, its importance and the severity of its violation[1], the Mishna in Masekhet Chagiga (10a) declares, “The laws of Shabbat are...
History is made one brave act at a time. Henny has grown up with her father’s boat, the Gerda III, as a home away from home. She loves sailing the waters between Denmark and...
Jewish Connectivity in a Changing World Studies of Jews in Society This collected volume is based on the proceedings of a symposium held in 2018 at York University, Canada, which was held to commemorate...
The Postmodern Theory of History in Praxis Routledge Approaches to History How to Write About the Holocaust is a contribution to ongoing debates in historiography and Holocaust studies. More specifically, it combines the theoretical...
The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball’s Chosen Players From the icons of the game to the players who got their big break but never quite broke through, The Baseball Talmud provides a wonderful historical...
How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America How did Humphrey Bogart end up telling Lauren Bacall a Talmudic story in the film Key Largo, and what does that have to do...
Foreword: Julia Moskin When Louis and Lilly Zabar rented a counter in a dairy store on 80th Street and Broadway in 1934 to sell smoked fish, they could not have imagined that their store...
Strzyzow (also known as Strizev in Yiddish and Strezow in German) is today a major town in southern Poland (it was in Galicia, an Imperial Province of Austria Hungary, from 1776 to 1919). The...
A Hidden Child and her Dutch Rescuers This is the story of Sabine Fröhlich and the harrowing experiences of her family during the Nazi regime – experiences she did not disclose to her children...
In 1944 Brooklyn, newborn Michael J. Hardy is rejected by his mother so she can run with gangster Bugsy Siegel, Hardy’s godfather. Shirley Rook quickly rose to the top of the criminal ranks. As...
