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"Never again"

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"This was not just a handover of an Israeli captive. It was a ritualistic humiliation. A Jew was hauled to a public square packed with men who hate her kind. She was made into a spectacle for the sport of radical Islamists. It was an outrage from another century." www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-...

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"The West’s progressive dogma has deprived it of a theory of mind for savagery." telegraph.co.uk/gift/fa907a1...

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ברוך אתה אדוני, אלוהינו מלך העולם, מתיר אסורים

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13 Jan. 1898 - Emile Zola addresses the President of France and accuses his government of antisemitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus, a French Army officer sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage. Zola points out a litany of judicial errors and an utter lack of serious evidence.

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JEWISH PRINTING IN HEBREW, IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL IN 1578. This is Rabbi Samuel Aripul's "Sar Shalom", printed in 1578 by Abraham & Eliezer Askkenazi at Safed (צְפַת Tsfat), the highest city in the Galilee, in what is today northern Israel. Jews were printing books in Israel nearly 5 centuries ago.

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This is the beginning of the oldest Arabic version of Christ's Letter Sent from Heaven. This 10th century ms. (Munich BSB Cod. arab. 1067) is one of the oldest witnesses of this apocryphon in existence. Digital images are available online here: www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb0....

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A machzor (prayerbook), printed in Sulzbach in 1794, with a contemporary Hebrew manuscript account bound in of the Jews murdered in a Polish pogrom on the 2nd day of Pesach 1655, together with an additional later Yiddish translation written in pencil. 1/

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The 7 days of Sukkot start tomorrow. Sukkot is one of the three Jewish festivals on which the ancient Israelites were commanded to make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem. This beautiful machzor (prayerbook) for Sukkot according to the rite of Avignon, was written by David Tsoref in 1721. 1/

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Sefer Chibat Yerushalayim. [Book of the Love of Jerusalem]. Written by Rabbi Chaim Horowitz, and printed at the Press of Moshe & Yehudit in Jerusalem in 1844. The first edition of the first book about Jerusalem printed in the Holy City, illustrated with the Western Wall on the title page.

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JEWISH PRINTING IN HEBREW, IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL IN 1578. This is Rabbi Samuel Aripul's "Sar Shalom", printed in 1578 by Abraham & Eliezer Askkenazi at Safed (צְפַת Tsfat), the highest city in the Galilee, in what is today northern Israel. Jews were printing books in Israel nearly 5 centuries ago.

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A shekel struck in year 3 of the Jewish Revolt against Rome, AD 68-69. Obverse: Chalice with Paleo-Hebrew: ŠQL YŚR’L (= Shekel of Israel) and the date: Y(ear) 3. Reverse: 3 pomegranates, with Paleo-Hebrew: YRUŠLYM HQDUŠH (= Yerushalayim Hakedosha = Jerusalem the Holy [Place]).

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To all the acquaintances of mine in academia who casually repeat this blood-libel: like many Jews I will never forget, nor ever forgive. "There is a sadistic triumphalism in charging Jews with genocide, as though those making it feel they have their man at last." telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05...

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I unreservedly support every word of this moving and brilliantly written letter. Am Yisrael Chai. 🇮🇱 docs.google.com/document/u/0...

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Digitization & cataloging is complete for the collection of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of ʻAkkār in northern Lebanon. The colophons and endowment notes testify to close interactions in the Ottoman period across what is now the border between Lebanon and Syria. Info: hmml.org/collections/...

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Disappointing that there isn't a convenient way to say this in English. In South Africa, one often hears the wonderful Afrikaans equivalent: "moer-my-gesiggie". Do any other languages have a word or convenient standard phrase for this?

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A collage of Adhucs from a court record in 1250 Norfolk "Adhuc" means "Still" and appears at the top of some membranes. The heading tells readers the proceedings are a continuation from the same district listed on the previous membrane. For instance, a dragon breathes fire on "Still from Grimshoe"

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A new free post on my Substack, 'All Old Strange Things', looks at 10 history books that have transformed the way I think drfrancisyoung.substack.com/p/books-that...

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To all the acquaintances of mine in academia who casually repeat this blood-libel: like many Jews I will never forget, nor ever forgive. "There is a sadistic triumphalism in charging Jews with genocide, as though those making it feel they have their man at last." telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05...

submitted 291 days ago • 0 comments

I unreservedly support every word of this moving and brilliantly written letter. Am Yisrael Chai. 🇮🇱 docs.google.com/document/u/0...

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One of the best, most innovative booksellers in the US - if you're not on the @funkebooks.bsky.social mailing list, you should be.

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You see the printed black square from a page in Robert Fludd's "Utriusque cosmi maioris" (1617) that represented the nothingness that was prior to the universe. The square is framed by four sentences in Latin: "Et sic in infinitum" (And so on to infinity). #earlymodern #skystorians

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A hundred soldiers, museum conservators and even members of the public, joined the rescue effort. They climbed on each other's shoulders to pull down artworks mounted high up on walls.

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Map of the world with Jerusalem in the centre, and some of its inhabitants are depicted. BL Add MS 28681; 'The Map Psalter'; 1262-1300 CE; England; f.9r

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