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Gabe Cali

gabeondrums

Levitical Shepherds, Old Towers and Swaddling ClothesWhen we first meet Rachel in the Biblical narrative, she is approaching her future husband at a well in "the land of the people

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kilovh

Remembering a life-changing experience I had at the hands of a teacher of mine, a rabbi in JerusalemIt was a bar mitzvah of one of the Yeshiva rabbis' sons, in

Saeed ✡︎ סעיד

thatcooljeww

Shulamit "Shula" Kishik-Cohen, also (Shulamit Cohen-Kishik) (born :1917 – died : 2017) was an Argentinian-Israeli spy who worked to smuggle Jews from Arab countries into Israel. She was noted for

Babylon Singularity

babylonsingular

"Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or

Yachad UK

YachadUK

THREAD: (1/4) At the start of the year, many of our supporters wrote to their MPs to protest evictions of Palestinians in East Jerusalem. Today there is a court hearing

Breaking the Silence

BtSIsrael

With all the talk of annexation, it's worth zooming in on one small example that perfectly demonstrates what makes the occupation so morally bankrupt and why annexation will only make

Kim Phillips

K_L_Phillips

Usually when one reads the mediaeval Jewish peshat (plain sense) Bible commentators, one nods along in time to their music: ‘all very plausible’, one says to oneself.But then sometimes this

Eduard Habsburg

EduardHabsburg

THREAD: Visiting the relics of the True Cross in Santa Croce in GerusalemmeThis unspectacular church near San Giovanni hosts, if true, real relics from the cross Jesus Christ died on.

Omar Baddar عمر بدّار

OmarBaddar

THREAD: Biden's Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made several awful remarks on CNN tonight, making abundantly clear how infuriatingly biased towards Israel the admin's policy will be. Here are

Jewish History

HistoricalJW

The holiday of Sigd is celebrated today by the Ethiopian Jewish community, but what exactly Sigd is? (THREAD). Sigd (ሰግድ) means prostration, and is one of the unique Beta Yisrael

Brendan May

bmay

There’s something utterly peculiar about a society that sits on its isolated island, fish rotting, exports demolished, amidst a soaring and avoidable death toll, voting for people who won’t feed

NEFERTITI

firstladyship

Ark Of The Covenant & Knights TemplarsJerusalem, 1095 AD, epicenter of the struggle for the holy land. Muslim armies from Palestine & Egypt have ruled the walled enclave for more

Inquisitive Native

InqNative

Reporters, pundits, activists. Before you echo the notion that Palestinians are being "corralled into small, crowded enclaves", which is in vogue in some circles, here are some facts that you

Gilead Ini

GileadIni

1/ Omar Shakir is Human Rights Watch's director in Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Read his account. Then see the video, in the reply immediately below, of what actually happened

Danny Ayalon

DannyAyalon

20 years ago today, I participated as a member of the Israeli delegation to the Camp David Summit. Holding the foreign policy portfolio in the Prime Minister's Office, I arrived

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angeliqstar

Hanukkah, what is that? a thread; Hannukah is a jewish holiday, one of the oldest holidays. What we celebrate, what we do in this time, when it's happening, what's the

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