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Hidden Sensuality

The JOFA conference brought together some 700 women and 300 men for a weekend of religious activism and scholarly lectures on the question of tzeniut, a mix of modesty and dignity, and other aspects of communal life, all gathered under the rubric \”Discovering/Uncovering/Recovering Women in Judaism.\”

My Yiddische Papa

\”Yiddish is our language; it\’s our culture,\” said educator Yakob Basner. \”Before the war, 12 million Jews spoke it. And the last words spoken by the Jews in the Holocaust before they were killed was in Yiddish.\”

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