Why The Abrahamic Religions Have Not Achieved True Monotheism
From the blog of Jonathan Franklin at The Times of Israel
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From the blog of Jonathan Franklin at The Times of Israel
Jewish people around the world have just ended the annual fall cycle of holidays and festivals which concluded with Simchat Torah.
From the blog of Steve Rodan at The Times of Israel
From the blog of Daniel Kennemer at The Times of Israel
Yiddish literature, the body of written works produced in the Yiddish language of Ashkenazic Jewry (central and eastern European Jews and their descendants). Yiddish literature culminated in the period from 1864 to 1939, inspired by modernization and then severely diminished by the Holocaust. It arose in Europe out of a tradition that gave precedence to Hebrew prayers, commentaries, and scripture. As the vernacular expression of Ashkenazic Jews, Yiddish literature was often intended for ordinary readers rather than for the highly educated. Because few women learned Hebrew, their literacy was ...