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  Though the first Thanksgiving took place in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1621, it wasn’t until 1863 that President Lincoln codified the holiday as an American tradition. It was only a few short years more before someone tried to exclude the Jews. In 1868, Governor John W. Geary of Pennsylvania issued a proclamation, a how-to guide for […]

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So you’ve heard of the Shema, right? The most important prayer in Judaism? Traditionally recited twice a day, upon waking and going to sleep? Today, when we say “the Shema,” we’re talking about the verse Deuteronomy 6:4 as well as three other paragraphs (two from Deuteronomy and one from Numbers), but the prayer has been […]

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