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April 17, 2015
Passing an art legacy on to the next generation
During the lengthy visits she would have with her great-uncle and great-aunt, David and Rivka Labkovski, at their home in South Africa, Leora Raikin — who was a young girl at the time — recalls these relatives being a bit eccentric.
Hebrew word of the week: Kvish
What is the connection between kvish “highway” and kibbush, which means “conquest, occupation”; kvushim “pickles; occupied (territories)”; kevesh “movable stairway (for descending off an airplane)”; kivshan “kiln, furnace (where material is heated or smelted)”; makhbesh “(press, clothes) roller”?
Survivors speak out on the anniversaries of the Armenian Genocide and the liberation of Auschwitz
This year marks the passage of two major anniversaries that reveal man’s unbelievable capacity for cruelty and evil.
Torah Portion: Parashat Shemini (Leviticus 9:1 11:47)
The purpose of these commentaries is to provide Jewish Journal readers with a brief, general entree into the multifaceted study of Torah from different denominational perspectives.
Rabbi Edward Feinstein on Parashat Shemini (Leviticus 9:1 11:47)
Americans have an infatuation with leaders. The English philosopher Thomas Carlyle believed that history is propelled by “the great man” (Carlyle’s phrase), whose values and energy animate our institutions.
Rabbi Chaim Mentz on Parashat Shemini (Leviticus 9:1 11:47)
In the early years of American Jewish history, there was a debate about whether American life was different from the shtetl life of Europe.
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