What Is Purim? How And Why This Jewish Holiday Is Celebrated
Purim, or the Feast of Lots, is a Biblical Jewish festival known for extravagant costumes, the exchanging of gift baskets, ...
Greek Reporter12d
The Bible’s First Translation Was in Greek
Originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, the Bible is the most sold book in history, it first translation into another ...
The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle6d
A Purim primer
A barely-avoided genocide being celebrated with costumes and drunkenness and jokes is itself a kind of celebration of life ...
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What is Judaism?
Moses is the most important Jewish prophet. The Jewish holy book is known as the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible. The word Tanakh comes from the first letters of the three different parts of the book ...
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In the first century AD, Jews lived across the Roman Empire in relative harmony.
By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their homeland in Judaea across the Mediterranean and there were major Jewish communities in Syria, Egypt, and Greece. Practicing a ...
The Times of Israel26d
Tanakh Hill: Jerusalem’s biblical border
Catch the find depicted on the wall, our earliest known example of ancient hebrew biblical text, the priestly blessing, rolled up in amulet and probably worn by an ancient Judahite walking this ...
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Give examples from your own tradition of how Christians read the "Old Testament" through the lens of the "New Testament" or how Jews read the Tanakh through the perspectives of the rabbis. Consult the ...
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Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education
Tammy Jacobowitz is Tanakh department chair at SAR High School and is the ... She is a member of the inaugural cohort of the Sefaria Word-by-Word Jewish Women’s Writing Circle Fellowship.