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- humorous rants. King became well-known as a Jewish comedian and satirist ... Medical Center in Jerusalem, established a scholarship fund for American ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 04:26, 17 June 2023
- , literally "head of the year") is a Jewish holiday, commonly ... Rosh Hashanah is the first of the High Holidays or "Days of Awe ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 19:18, 16 December 2022
- of Judaism so that non-Jews will also have a share in the world to come ... According to the Biblical narrative, a flood covered the whole world ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 09:58, 11 March 2023
- Ecclesiology, in Christian theology, is the study of doctrine pertaining ... Gentile members in what had been essentially a Jewish messianic movement. ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 11:58, 7 May 2024
- 2 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible which focuses ... #039; more straightforward history. Is also appears to have been influenced ...12 KB (1,773 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
- Mál'akhî—"my messenger") is a book of the Hebrew Bible ... Nothing is known of Malachi's personal life, or indeed if he ...17 KB (2,748 words) - 20:37, 17 May 2023
- 21, 1982), also known as Gerhard Scholem, was a Jewish philosopher and historian ... Scholem is best known for his collection of lectures, Major Trends ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:28, 21 May 2024
- July 22, 1619), born Giulio Cesare Russo, was a Roman Catholic priest and a ... Born in Brindisi, Kingdom of Naples, to a family of Venetian merchants ...12 KB (1,816 words) - 17:58, 25 October 2022
- Leo Baeck (May 23, 1873 – November 2, 1956) was a twentieth-century ... 1933, after the Nazis seized power, he became a leader of the representative ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 20:03, 25 October 2022
- 1 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical book written by a Jewish author ... The setting of the book is about a century after the conquest of Judea ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:32, 13 June 2023
- Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death ... He was born in Kappsta, Sweden, to Raoul Oscar Wallenberg (1888-1912 ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:37, 8 December 2022
- A beth din, also spelled beit din or bet din (Hebrew: בית דין ... Since then, no single beth din has emerged as a central authority of Jewish ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 17:59, 29 September 2023
- Hungarian Jewish journalist and playwright who became the founder of modern ... from anti-Semitism and that the creation of a Jewish state was the only solution ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
- Pierre Charron (1541 - 1603) was a French philosopher and Roman Catholic ... Pierre Charron was born in Paris, one of the twenty-five children ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 05:20, 24 November 2022
- and Midrash: literal and allegorical. It is said that only those with the ... The Haggadah is part of Judaism's Oral law (תורה שבעל ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 22:16, 21 June 2024
- Elie) (September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016) was a world-renowned Hungarian Romanian ... Wiesel was a passionate and powerful writer and author of more than ...25 KB (3,747 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- also have written Ezra-Nehemiah. His work is an important source of information ... In the Herbrew Masoretic text, Chronicles is part of the third section ...18 KB (2,889 words) - 21:52, 10 December 2023
- (January 14, 1892 – March 6, 1984) was a prominent German anti-Nazi ... of the Bishop of Chichester, George Bell, who was at the time the strongest ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 23:11, 15 May 2023
- and lawyer. He was born British, and died a resident in England. He held ... Benjamin was born a British subject in Christiansted, Saint Croix ...16 KB (2,409 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- Israel Jacobson (October 17, 1768 - September 14, 1828, Berlin) was ... married into the family of the wealthy court Jew Hertz Samson and later inherited ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 06:05, 11 March 2024
