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Aside from the first Purim in Israel, the Archive Blog presents some real Purim jewels in the form of this ‘Best and Worst’ list: Worst punishment for a Purim costume: (1926) Sentenced to prison for impersonating nun at masquerade ball Best megillah-reading accomodations: (1962) Jewish commuters celebrate Purim on train; Megillah read by rabbi [[READMORE]] Best conjecture that […]

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If you were shopping for clothes in Germany at the turn of the 20th century, odds are you would have wound up at a department store owned by the Tietz family. [[READMORE]] On Mar. 1, 1882, Hermann Tietz and nephew Oscar Tietz opened the Tietz department store in Gera. From a JTA article in 1932: Berlin, Mar. […]

[ED. NOTE: Click here for articles chronicling on Rabbi J.H. Hertz’s involvement in opposing calendar reform.] For the past 80 years, millions of Jews have read the Chumash, the Five Books of Moses, through the eyes of Joseph Herman Hertz. His “Pentateuch and Haftorahs” became the standard edition for Orthodox and Conservative synagogues across Britain, […]

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