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Tractate Shabbat (Sabbath - 24 chapters) is part of Seder Mo'ed. It contains the laws concerning the 39 prohibitions of work on Shabbat

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The City of Jerusalem circa 1900.

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View of Jerusalem outside the Lions Gate and the Pool of Bethesda.

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Hezekiah's Pool located in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, was once...

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Choral Synagogue of Kishinev (present-day Chisinau).

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Kahal Kadosh Mikveh Israel (also called Congregation Mikveh Israel) is a synagogue located in...

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Beta Israel - also known as Ethiopian Jews - are the Jewish communities which lived in the area...

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In North East India there lives a small group of people who have been practicing Judaism for...

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Rohatyn (Rogatin) was located in the Austrian province of Galicia from 1792 until 1919. It...

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The Legionnaires' rebellion and the Bucharest pogrom occurred in Bucharest, Romania,...

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On April 1, 1933 Hitler ordered a boycott of Jewish shops, banks, offices and department stores.

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Challah, described in Numbers 15:17-22, is a braided bread eaten during the Shabbat meals and...

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The Touro Synagogue is a 1763 synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, that is the oldest synagogue...

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Bimah of the wooden synagogue in Wolpa, Poland.

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Engraving of Flavius Josephus from "The Works of Flavius Josephus" (1854). Josephus...

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Ceremonies and Customs of the Jews are translated from Italian by Leon de Modine.

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Esther in the Haram (Persia). Painting by en:Edwin Long, 1878. Location of painting: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

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Jewish soldier settlers dancing the Hora in Israel, 1948

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