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Winners of the National Jewish Book Awards
SIX DAYS OF WAR June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East By Michael B. Oren Oxford University Press Anthology THE RUSSIAN DEBUTANTE’S HANDBOOK By Gary Shteyngart …
A True Story Never Told
A great many Jew knows the story of how the Danes rescued 8,000 Jews from the Nazi’s by smuggling them to Sweden in fishing boats. Very few Jews, including me, …
Hagadda for Shavuot
Shavuot, the end of a “seven times seven” days countdown, is finally here, and it brings you this Haggadah. Shavuot’s main tradition is the Tikkun Leil Shavuot. On Shavuot’s night, …
Some remarkable Jews in Southern Africa … and other stories
Preamble: Browsing through my copy of Eric Rosenthal’s “Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa” fifth edition, I was struck by the many entries of Jewish interest in the affairs of our country …
Some customs for the holiday of Hanoukah
1)The custom in Egypt was not to say Sidouq HaDin all 8 days of Hanoukah. 2)The custom amongst all Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities is to only use …
Berbers and the Jews, a Unique Relationship; The Historical Background
JEWS MOVE WEST Blocked from escape to the east, many Jews found refuge to the west. The westward movement of the Jews from Egypt and Cyrenaica to the Barbary states …