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  • and fully American. Gratz believed women had a responsibility to educate their ... the daughter of Joseph Simon (1712–1804), a respected Jewish tradesman ...
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  • from Arabic for "shaking off") is an Arabic term for "uprising ... suicide bombing of Israeli targets became a popular method of resistance ...
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  • Gershom ben Judah, (c. 960 -1040?) was a French rabbi, best known ... also known as Sir Leofitin. His early life is surrounded with legends of ...
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  • referred to as "Bunin brocade," is one of the richest in the language ... province in central Russia. He came from a long line of landed gentry ...
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  • The Prophet Abraham is claimed by Jews as the ancestor of the Israelites ... of past eras and move forward to building a world of religious co-operation. ...
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  • January 30, 1961) was an American journalist who gained international celebrity ... papers, and was read by eight to ten million people a day. ...
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  • Ablution is a term referring to washing, and can mean ordinary washing ... in Judaism: tevilah, full body immersion in a mikvah (ritual bath) or body ...
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  • as late at 600 C.E.. The Axial Age plays a central, foundational, or crucial ... Jaspers was led to realize the possibility of a political unity of ...
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  • His "milieu therapy," however, is still widely used in the treatment ... Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a wood merchant ...
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  • Saul Bellow (June 11, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a writer who achieved ... He remains one of the forerunners in shedding a positive light on ...
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  • In the New Testament, Judas Iscariot (died April 29–33 C.E.) is ... Despite his notorious role in the Gospel narratives, Judas is still ...
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  • 'ibn Gabiyrol)(c. 1021 – c. 1058), a Moorish Jewish poet and philosopher ... in his teens. At the age of 16 he wrote a poem later included in the ...
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  • drama and sexual intrigue, in which she is ultimately vindicated, despite ... Tamar is one of only five women mentioned in Matthew's version ...
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  • Nazareth is the capital and largest city in the North District of ... Modern-day Nazareth is nestled in a hollow plateau some 1,200 feet ...
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  • A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose ... Human history and archaeology show that a basic urge to express emotion ...
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  • second wife Helen Pitts Douglass (sitting) who was white, a famous nineteenth ... "to mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different races ...
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  • Hillel (הלל) was a famous Jewish religious teacher who lived in ... *"That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That ...
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  • image = [[Image:19480516 PalestinePost Israel is born.jpg|200px]]| ... The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli daily English language broadsheet ...
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  • translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is considered to be the only playwright ... have speculated that Marlowe may have been a secret agent of the queen) ...
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  • was an American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books ... and Anna (née Blumberg) Uris. His father, a Polish-born immigrant, was ...
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