The Jews of Philadelphia have been influential in finance as well as in music and the fine arts, and have been identified in every way with the growth of the municipality. Members of the Etting family have taken a prominent part in public life from the first. Lewis Charles Levin (1808-60...
Philadelphia authors Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, The Word Mavens, are acclaimed authors and entertaining speakers on Jewish culture, food and family.
Philadelphia authors Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, The Word Mavens, are acclaimed authors and entertaining speakers on Jewish culture, food and family.
Our Sukkah is underway. This Sunday, erev Sukkot, we will celebrate. In honor of the Pope’s arrival to Philadelphia we will have a combined Sukkah Decorating and barbecue, that we have affectionately dubbed the Pope-e-que. The Pope’s presence is bringing havoc to the area with the faith...
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Other prominent persons were the Phillips family, chief among them being Zalegman Phillips, Henry M. Phillips, the latter one of the leading lawyers of Philadelphia and a member of the Thirty-fifth Congress. There followed Leeser, as minister of the Mickve Israel Congregation, Sabato Morais, a...
Rachel Adler, Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics,” (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1998) excerpted at pp.319-344 Jess says: March 26, 2007 at 12:40 pm I’m actually writing a feature about feminism in Israel among Orthadox women at the moment. I have load...
They declared independence in Philadelphia in 1776. Today, the USA is the world's only super power. Wikipedia French Revolution The French Revolution (1789–1799), was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France that had a lasting impact on French history and more ...
Morais, Eminent Israelites of the Nineteenth Century, s.v., philadelphia, 1880. Arthur de Rothschild, Baron: Born at Paris March 28, 1851; died at Monte Carlo 1903; son of Nathaniel Rothschild of London. He was the author of: "Notice sur l'Origine du Prix Uniforme de la Taxe de Lett...
The destruction of the Temple, while reducing the Passover-night service into little more than a survival or memorial of its old self, again brought husbands, wives, and children together around the same table, and thus enabled the father to comply more closely with the Scriptural command: "...