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EST 1917

  “When God established the Heavens, I was there; when He inscribed a circle in the depths, when He fortified the skies above, I was with Him, as an architect.” These words could be read as fantastic fiction, as craziness, or as someone on a severe power trip. But where is this speech from? It’s from the Book […]

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The Dead Sea Scrolls are the most prominent historical record of Jewish life in the Second Temple period, from roughly 500 BCE to 70 CE. The first scrolls were found in 1947 by a young Bedouin shepherd. Of the 15 scrolls, only one was not written on parchment. The Copper Scroll, as it’s known, was written on a thin, paperlike substance that is a mix of copper and tin. […]

Do aardvarks repent on Yom Kippur? At least one does. On the PBS cartoon show Arthur, eight-year-old Arthur’s best friend Francine is Jewish. In one episode, Francine decides to fast for the entire Yom Kippur. She makes a bet with her older sister, who thinks there’s no way that Francine can go the whole day […]

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