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Since the sixteenth century, Tzfat has been considered one of Judaism’s four Holy Cities, along with Jerusalem, Hebron and Tiberia. Since that time, the city has remained a center of Kabbalah.
In Tzfat, the Ari HaKadosh lived and learned Kabbalah; here Rabbi Yosef Karo wrote the Shulchan Aruch; here, Rabbi Shlomo Alkabetz greeted the Shabbos Queen with his [...]
On March 27, 1948, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War a Haganah convoy was sent from Haifa to reinforce and re-supply the Yehiam kibbutz which had been holding out against constant Arab attacks. The 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine put Yehiam within the limits of the Arab state rather than the Jewish State.
Ben Ami Pachter (born 1919) planned to [...]
The Irish Jewish Museum (Irish: Músaem Giúdach na hÉireann) is a small museum located in the once highly Jewish populated area of Portobello, around the South Circular Road, Dublin 8, dedicated to the history of the Irish Jewish community.
The museum was opened in June 1985 by Chaim Herzog who was then president of Israel and was born in Ireland. The museum is in a former Synagogue [...]
A few miles from the Sea of Galilee, just north of the ancient city of Tzfat (Safed), stands Mount Meron. Many important sages are buried there, but Meron is most well-known for the burial site of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai or Rashbi (Hebrew: רשב”י, pronounced “Rash-bee”, an acronym from Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai). Rabbi Shimon, [...]
Tel Aviv is classified as a beta+ world city, being a major economic hub and the richest city in Israel, home to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and many corporate offices and research and development centers. Its beaches, bars, cafés, restaurants, upscale shopping, great weather, cosmopolitan lifestyle and famous 24-hour culture have led to it [...]
Purim is the most festive of Jewish holidays, a time of prizes, noisemakers, costumes and treats. Purim is a day of taking pleasure but it’s also a day of giving pleasure and doing good. We perform mitzvah by donating food or money to at least two poor and we practice Mishloah Manot or the “sending [...]
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Seven Shots In Brooklyn, The iPhone Street Photography of Greg Schmigel
Greg recently went on a foot tour of the Hasidic section of Brooklyn and shot the following photos with his iPhone and then post processed them in iPhoto – to read more visit www.iphoneography.com.
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