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One week after Tisha B’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, comes a minor holiday whose mood is precisely the opposite. The festival of Tu B’Av (the fifteenth of Av) is called “the happiest day in the Jewish year” in the Mishnah (Ta’anit, Chapter 4).  The practice on this day was for single Israelite women to go out in […]

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The town of Chelm has long existed in the Jewish imagination as a popular destination–the “city of fools” immortalized in folktales, mostly for the ridiculous behavior of its fictional inhabitants. Many Chelm stories were written by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Others have been told and retold so often that their authors have been forgotten (to check out some of […]

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Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Israel, has an unexpected new ally in its efforts to chronicle the Nazi atrocities: Google. Each day, Yad Vashem gets literally hundreds of requests for information about Holocaust victims. It’s impossible for the museum to respond to all of them. But a collaborative project with Google offers massive assistance…in the form of […]

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