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AJU Professor Yitzchak Kerem Interview Part II
Part One Luke: "How does your activism fit with your scholarship?" Yitzchak: "It complements each other. I try to be objective. I’m critical of Sephardic organizational life. I received a lot of resistance when I tried to organize a Sephardic … Continue reading
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Tagged active world, area specialists, encyclopedia judaica, gaon, jewish communities, loan fund, march of the living, sephardic world
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The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch – A Book To Put You Off Judaism
One of the first Jewish books I studied was the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch. Marc B. Shapiro writes: "When I was young everyone seemed to study it. It has been reprinted numerous times and also translated into many languages. According to … Continue reading
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Tagged encyclopedia judaica, halakhah, jewish books, kitzur shulchan aruch, Marc B. Shapiro
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Rabbis & Communism
Marc B. Shapiro’s latest post is up on the Seforim blog: …Yet in the entire history of the Jewish people I don’t know of any source that says that it is good to be poor… …The notion that it is … Continue reading
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Tagged boldness, camel through the eye of a needle, commissar, communist program, encyclopedia judaica, eye of a needle, jewish war, josephus, judah leib, Kabbalah Centre, lengthy article, levity, Marc B. Shapiro, orthodox jew, rabbi shlomo, revolutionary party, rich person, rsquo, soviet government, yitzhak
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