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  • 81KOSICE — (Slovak Košice; Hung. Kassa; Ger. Kaschau), city in S.E. Slovakia. Until 1992 Czechoslovak Republic, since 1993 Slovak Republic. Documentation testifies to Jewish appearances in Kosice in 1484 and 1524, but they were not permitted to live in the… …

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  • 82Congregation Beth Israel West Side Jewish Center — For other synagogues named Beth Israel , see Beth Israel (disambiguation) Not to be confused with the Jewish Center, an Orthodox synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. West Side Jewish Center Basic information Location …

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  • 83A Jewish and Democratic State — is the definition of the nature and character of the State of Israel, as the Jewish nature was first defined within the Declaration of Independence of 1948, and the Democratic character was first officially added to the Jewish nature in the… …

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  • 84BARISHANSKY, RAPHAEL — (1864–1950), rabbi. Barishansky was born in Lipnishtok, Lithuania, and studied at the outstanding yeshivot of Eishishok and Mir as well as the kolel in Kovno and with the Gaon Rabbi Ḥayyim Lev. In Bialystok he studied with Rabbi samuel mohilewer …

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  • 85JASSY — (Rom. Iasi), city in N.E. Romania, capital of the former principality of Moldavia from 1565. The community of Jassy was the oldest in Moldavia. Jews first settled there in the second half of the 15th century because of its position on the… …

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  • 86MEXICO — MEXICO, federal republic situated south of the United States of America with a population of 97,483,412 (2000) inhabitants and a Jewish community of about 40,000 (2000), most of whom live in Mexico City. Colonial Period The Jewish presence in… …

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  • 87SAINT PETERSBURG — SAINT PETERSBURG, Pinellas County, Florida. Florida s fourth largest city, with 61 square miles, is located on the west coast of Florida in Pinellas County (St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Palm Harbor, Largo, Gulfport and Tarpon Springs). It has 234… …

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  • 88SWITZERLAND — SWITZERLAND, central European republic. The Medieval Community Since the frontiers of Switzerland have undergone a long process of evolution, it is difficult to determine where and when the Jews appeared for the first time. In Kaiseraugst a… …

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  • 89Islamic dietary laws — This is a sub article to Hygiene in Islam, Healthy diet and Food and cooking hygiene. Part of a series on Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh) …

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  • 90FISH AND FISHING — In the Bible and Talmud The Bible says that humans are to exercise dominion over the fish as well as over all other subhuman life (Gen. 1:28). Fish are divided into clean and unclean by biblical dietary laws: These you may eat, of all that are in …

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