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Adventures in Jewish law: the Kohein’s conundrum

From The Huffington Post Many Jewish laws seem antiquated and irrational to skeptics as well as adherents. The laws pertaining to Kohanim, the Hebrew word for priests, would belong in that category....

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A playing field fit for the Torah

Dr. Tony Rebuck thinks about sports, a lot. He is a fan with a fanatical streak, a pulsing, palpable devotion to fun and games that infected him as a child after taking “the tube” to London’s Wembley...

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Why David Petraeus should have read the Torah

From aish.com Another scandal involving a powerful man brought down and destroyed because of an affair with a woman he had spent an inordinate amount of time with. General David Petraeus, at the height...

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It is time for a new, modern translation of the Bible for Jews

“The Catholics have done it; the Protestants have done it; AND NOW THE JEWS ARE GOING TO DO IT!” So began a 1956 solicitation letter for, of all things, a new Jewish translation of the Bible. Fifty...

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Oldest known complete Torah scroll discovered miscatalogued in Italy

An Italian expert in Hebrew manuscripts said Wednesday he has discovered the oldest known complete Torah scroll, a sheepskin document dating from 1155-1225. It was right under his nose, in the...

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