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A YouTuber reviewing a pizza shop in Westcliff-on-Sea meets a local Jew...
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Jun 11
German and Austro-Hungarian troops march though a shtetl during the Gorlice–Tarnów offensive in 1915. Some frum Jews are seen on the left.
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Going to start referring more regularly to negel vasser as "exorcising evil" (1966)
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May 28
An 1868 illustration titled "Zhidovskaia karchma" (Jewish tavern).
We now know where the Machanayim artist got his inspiration from.
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May 26
A 1930s photograph of the Hotel Fast near Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem. The swastikas are there because the building was home to the German Consulate during the British Mandate.
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May 18
"England has been all she could be to Jews, Jews will be all they can be to England."
Banner outside the Jewish Chronicle office in London encourages Jews to enlist in the British Army, 1914. Around 50,000 British Jews ended up serving in WWI.
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May 11
HUC, the reform rabbinical school, ordained its last class of 4 students.
Its first class was also 4 students.
End of an era for American Judaism.
The 1883 ordination ceremony became known as the “trayfe banquet.”
A few walked out—starting JTS and the Conservative Movement.
May 11
Hebrew Union College's Cincinnati seminary — the first in America, founded in 1875 — ordained its final class of rabbis for the last time, with four graduates.
@jaydeitcher reports:
ejphil.com/53tm3
ALT A formal ceremony takes place in a beautifully decorated synagogue, attended by a large congregation. Participants are dressed in ceremonial robes, suggesting a significant religious or community event.
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Apr 21
This looks awesome. And you can filter by time period and location!
Apr 21
.@JTSLibrary has put together a beautiful exhibition featuring some of the treasures of their incredible collection. Worth taking a look!
jheritage.jtsa.edu/
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Apr 19
What's crazy about the 1840 Damascus Affair is that Father Thomas' tombstone still claims that the Jews murdered him.
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Apr 14
According to his biographer, Sigmund Freud was forced to say הרי את מקודשת לי when he married his wife in 1886.
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Probably the first time there were shtreimlech in the Oval Office
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Mar 19
A 1904 photograph of the fire department in Woodbine, NJ, a Jewish agricultural colony founded in 1891.
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Mar 17
A young Fiorello LaGuardia at his desk on Ellis Island. From 1907 to 1910, he worked as an interpreter certified for Yiddish, Italian, German, and Croatian.
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An 1914 English/Yiddish poster urging Jews to enlist in the British Army. Approximately 50,000 Jews ended up serving in WWI, representing roughly 17% of the British Jewish population at the time.
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Feb 24
"There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom.
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