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T’tzaveh: What Was Aaron Wearing?

After Leviticus, Aaron's breastplate (hoshen) is never mentioned again. But the mysterious ephod appears several times in the Prophets—as an idol. (Click here for source sheet.) Download | Duration: 00:10:18Speaking Jewish

"American Jews speak a Jewish language comparable to Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Greek, and many other Diaspora languages." (Interview by Alan Brill)From The White Rose . . .

Sophie and Hans Scholl, who led Germany’s only Nazi-era public protest against Hitler and the Holocaust, were executed 70 years ago this month.  But in Germany, their legacy lives on.  . . . To The Black Rose

In 1904 the townsfolk of Limerick, Ireland, boycotted Jewish businesses and forced the town’s 150 Jews to leave.  As late as 1970, the town’s mayor defended the action.When the Sun Stood Still

Copernicus' heliocentrism, though embraced by many Jews, threatened Judaism—not by displacing man from the center of the universe but by elevating him to the heavens.The Indonesian Temple Mount

His mother is Muslim, his father Protestant.  But Yaakov Baruch, who runs Indonesia's only Jewish community, says, "I feel like I'm in Jerusalem."