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Shlissel (Key) Challah: The Loaf of Idolatry?

By Jameel@Muqata

The baking of a key inside a bread is a non-Jewish custom which has its foundation in Christian, and possibly even earlier, pagan culture.

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Winners and Losers: Israel’s Historic Unity Government

By Jameel@Muqata

A joint JoeSettler-Jameel post.  Left behind in the wake of Netanyahu’s surprise unity maneuver are some serious winners and loser. There is no doubt that elections would have shaken things up, but this unity coalition shakes up things even more. What Netanyahu managed to do today is of historic proportions and has some serious ramifications […]

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The Rabbi Who Made Beit She'an Part of Israel

By Jameel@Muqata

The borders of Israel are today under dispute, but that was also true 700 years ago. When Estori Ha-Parchi (Ishtori Haparchi), a Spanish-French scholar, came to Israel around 1313, he was shocked to discover that some Jews did not consider places like Ramla and Beit She’an to be in Israel. Ramla was called 'Gat' by […]

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Persuaded - Chapter IV

By Barbara Bensoussan

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