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From the blog of Menachem Zaman at The Times of Israel

From the blog of Meyer Harroch at The Times of Israel

Created 300 years ago, Jaipur's Jantar Mantar is an outdoor complex filled with gargantuan astronomy tools designed to be used by the naked eye – and they're still accurate.

Separated by geography and language, there's not much that might seem to connect India's five dwindling Jewish communities – except praying in Hebrew, and food.

  Joy with Tears In Jewish tradition, we have ten major holidays annually, with only two of them, Simcha Torah and Purim, is about exalted joy. And on Purim, that joy comes after miraculous rescue from a mortal danger and prospect of total extinction.  Many of us knew in generations that our Jewish joy is so often a joy mixed with tears, so often it contains an essential drama in it. We are genetically aware of the complexity of our joy, and many of us, also in generations, value it as a more...

>> so long before "les miserable," there is one musical i would kill for. ♪ ♪ if i were a rich man ♪ yaba da di da di da di da di di di da ♪ all day long, id diddle diddle dum ♪ if i were a wealthy man ♪ i wouldnt have to work hard ♪ da da da ♪ all day long, ill diddle diddle dum ♪ if i were a little bittle rich ♪ ay yay yay... so one day, i get a phone call from south america. they want me to be tevya in "fiddler on the roof." now, i have to explain to them that im...

>> so long before "les miserable," there is one musical i would kill for. ♪ ♪ if i were a rich man ♪ yaba da di da di da di da di di di da ♪ all day long, id diddle diddle dum ♪ if i were a wealthy man ♪ i wouldnt have to work hard ♪ da da da ♪ all day long, ill diddle diddle dum ♪ if i were a little bittle rich ♪ ay yay yay... so one day, i get a phone call from south america. they want me to be tevya in "fiddler on the roof." now, i have to explain to them that im...