Why do Jews wear wigs? Orthodox women do not show their hair in public after their wedding. With a headscarf or a wig – referred to in Yiddish as a sheitel –they signal to their surroundings that they are married and that they comply with traditional notions of propriety. ...
2 Chronicles 7:14 "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. Read More 02Never...
In occupied Western Europe, Jews were compelled to wear the distinctive yellow star, and their property was seized or handed over on unfavorable terms. But only with the invasion of the Soviet Union were Jews systematically murdered. Pre-1941 instructions to Nazi German security units, the Einsatz...
[df] The hair of their heads was not singed, nor were their trousers damaged. Not even the smell of fire was to be found on them! 28 Nebuchadnezzar exclaimed,[dg]“Praised be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent forth his angel[dh] and has rescued his servants ...
Satan does not have a synagogue, but Jews do. However, John was not writing to Jews in general; he was specifically writing to Jewish converts, many of whom were still meeting in their synagogues. Verse 9 above says, “I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews and are ...
18. According to the passage, the main difference between the Gypsies and the Jews lies in their concepts of A. language. B. culture. C. identity. D. custom. TEXT B I was just a boy when my father brought me to Harlem for the first time, almost 50 years ago. We stayed at the ...
Unfortunately, so many people spread lies about what happened to those Jews – chiefly as a way of propping up a false Palestinian narrative – that most people have no idea of the truth or the scale of the disaster. They see the lies spreading online, but simply do not have the ...
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. — Ellen DeGeneres 133 Don't get bitter and twisted and nasty by life. You may have been ...
Posted onApril 16, 2023 Purim Jews and Pesach Jews D’var Torah from April 7, 2023 at Congregation Kol Ami. When I was a kid, cereal commercials used to boast that their product was “part of a balanced breakfast.” At the time this was just noise to me—kind of like the side effe...
The book of Revelation is an imagistic feast; a fantasy writer's treasure trove, full of beauty and horror. Some people would say that this beast in John’s vision has already come and gone — Hitler caused hundreds of thousands of Jews and countless oth