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Historicus Hasidicus retweeted
Going to start referring more regularly to negel vasser as "exorcising evil" (1966)
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HUC, the reform rabbinical school, ordained its last class of 4 students.
Its first class was also 4 students.
End of an era for American Judaism.
The 1883 ordination ceremony became known as the “trayfe banquet.”
A few walked out—starting JTS and the Conservative Movement.
Hebrew Union College's Cincinnati seminary — the first in America, founded in 1875 — ordained its final class of rabbis for the last time, with four graduates.
@jaydeitcher reports:
ejphil.com/53tm3
ALT A formal ceremony takes place in a beautifully decorated synagogue, attended by a large congregation. Participants are dressed in ceremonial robes, suggesting a significant religious or community event.
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"There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom.
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The British conquered Jerusalem on the third day of Hanukkah. To celebrate this, an Ohio paper published this awesome poster comparing Allenby in 1917 CE with Judah Maccabee in 165 BCE. The famous Jewish song Hava Nagila ("Let us rejoice") was written in honor of the occasion.
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Jews are not backing down.
A few return to Bondi Beach.
Daniel Lazurus and his friends returned to Bondi Beach this morning to wrap tefillin.
Just hours earlier, 16 innocent people were murdered there during a Chanukah celebration.
In the face of terror and hatred, the Jewish people will continue to live proudly as Jews, to do mitzvos, and to bring light into the world.
Am Yisrael Chai 💙
📷: Dovi
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The Cairo Genizah, found in a synagogue in Old Cairo, contains more than 300,000 handwritten pieces from the ninth to the 19th century. More than a 100 years after the trove’s discovery, machine-readable transcriptions are opening a window on its texts. jewishchronicle.timesofisrae…
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New evidence suggests Mark Twain might’ve been paid $7000 to write this…
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Pure Good and Pure Evil
One risked his life to save others.
One risked his life to kill others.
Be like Rabbi Daniel Walker.
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When you hear the word "Gadol," who comes to mind?
R' Moshe Shternbuch recounts lessons from R' Elchonon Wasserman, the Brisker Rov, and the Steipler.
And at the end of the sefer, acharon acharon chaviv, he dedicates a chapter to the lessons he learned from... his mother 🥲
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Wow! That's my dad שיחי in the sailor's hat. He went to RJJ throughout the year but went to Camp Yeshiva R' Shlomeh Kliger.
Thank you @hasidicus !
