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STL Jewish Light February 6, 2019 Photo: Eric Mink Joni Mitchell, the fiercely original, genre-defying songwriter, singer and guitarist/pianist, has been on my mind lately. Mitchell turned 75 on Nov. 7, and an all-star multitude of friends, lovers, collaborators and adoring appreciator...
traditions and values of Jewish communities in Europe so that visitors can better understand what was broken and shattered during the Holocaust. Then, the voices of survivors who relocated to St. Louis guide them through vignettes exploring the history of anti-Semitism, the rise of Nazism, World...
As the Jewish New Year approaches, I wanted to highlight a unique and meaningful Rosh Hashanah tradition and invite fellow St. Louisans to make it local, fun, and meaningful. Tashlich, a centuries-old Jewish tradition observed during... Read Post Something for Everyone: How Community Centers...
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36 (1992), 143 (149) (“Secular Zionists have sought to unify the Jewish population in Israel by constructing public life in a manner that ensures full participation by religious Jews.”). See also Edelman , note 6 supra at 51 (in the context of the jurisdiction ascribed to the ...
(and Son) of God. In a span of around three hundred years Jesus of Nazareth became the Christ of the Nicene Creed as ratified by Emperor Constantine and a few hundred bishops in Nicaea in 325 CE. He went from being a wandering Jewish sage, perhaps similar in some respects to a ...
In the Roman world the number of strokes that could be given was not fixed (differently from the Jewish world, were the number of lashes was fixed to 3917); if scourging was just a punishment not connected to a death sentence, the executioners had to avoid the death of the sentenced. ...