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1POLITICAL LIFE AND PARTIES — Introduction It was largely due to the existence of the pre state political parties, which had conducted intensive political activities for almost half a century within the framework of the yishuv , under the British Mandate for Palestine, that… …
2Upsherin — Part of a series of articles on Jews and Judaism …
3Morasha (disambiguation) — Morasha, Morashah (Hebrew: מורשה, Heritage) can refer to: the Morasha Israeli political party Musrara, Jerusalem, a neighborhood also known as Morasha Lauder – Morasha School, Warsaw, Poland a synagogue in Cape Town, South Africa a major… …
4ARAMA, ISAAC BEN MOSES — (c. 1420–1494), Spanish rabbi, philosopher, and preacher. As a young man Arama taught at Zamora and subsequently served the small communities of Tarragona and Fraga in Aragon. He was later appointed rabbi of Calatayud, where he wrote most of his… …
5BRIDEGROOMS OF THE LAW — (Heb., sing., חֲתַן תּוֹרָה, ḥatan Torah), honorary titles bestowed on those who are called up to the reading of certain sections of the law during the morning service of Simḥat Torah (which coincides, in Israel, with Shemini Aẓeret), when the… …
6ISAIAH — (Heb. יְשַׁעְיָה ,יְשַׁעְיָהוּ Salvation of YHWH ), one of the eight books (as the Rabbis and the Masorah count them) of the Nevi im, or Prophets, the second division of the Hebrew canon (see bible , Canon). INTRODUCTION Outside the Book of… …
7JERUSALEM — The entry is arranged according to the following outline: history name protohistory the bronze age david and first temple period second temple period the roman period byzantine jerusalem arab period crusader period mamluk period …
8MIRSKY, SAMUEL KALMAN — (1899–1967), rabbinic scholar, religious Zionist, and Hebraist. Born in Russia, Mirsky emigrated as a child with his parents to Palestine, where he received a thorough talmudic education and semikhah at 16. After teaching for some time at various …
9PO'ALEI AGUDAT ISRAEL — (PAI), ḥaredi workers party, affiliated to the World Union of Po alei Agudat Israel. PAI was founded in Lodz, Poland, in 1922, as an outgrowth of agudat israel . Its central ideal was the application of the social principles contained in the… …
10SHAPIRA, AVRAHAM ELKANA KAHANA — (1917– ), Israeli religious leader and former chief rabbi. Shapira was born in Jerusalem, where he studied at Yeshivat Eẓ Ḥayyim and then at Hevron Yeshivah under Rabbi Moses Mordechai Epstein and Rabbi Ezekiel Sarna. After his marriage, Shapira… …
