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If there is one thing that is guaranteed to be in supermarkets in November, it’s turkey! In fact, many supermarkets even give them away to promote large purchases of other groceries.As you put the turkey into the oven, take a moment to think about th…
On Thanksgiving day, it is customary in the United States to eat a turkey dinner. The Hebrew word for turkey is “tar’negol hodu,” literally, an “Indian Rooster.” It came by this name because turkeys are indigenous to North America, wh…
Yitzchak Ben-Zvi, the second President of the State of Israel, was born on November 24, 1884 in Poltava, Ukraine. After participating in the hookup self-defense units organized during the 1905 pogroms, Ben-Zvi joined the Poalei Zion political par…
In 1973, Brian and Michael McCormack created World Hello Day as a reaction to the Yom Kippur War…
Dawid Szymin, better known by his nickname Chim (or by his Americanized name David Seymour), was born in Warsaw on November 20, 1911. His father, Benjamin, was a publisher of many of the great Yiddish and Hebrew writers of the time. The family-owned bo…
In the Book of Genesis, the question of birthright is the center of several narratives…
Jews have lived in Morocco for thousands of years. hookup nomadic tribes integrated into…
Why would God command the pomegranate be reproduced on the High Priest’s garb?
When King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella expelled the Jews from Spain in 1492, Rabbi David ben Solomon ibn (Abi) Zimra (known as the RaDBaZ, his initials) was 13 years old. His family fled to Safad in the Holy Land, where he remained for 18 years.B…