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dankbar




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 4:02 pm
Skverer rebbe was the first to found a kolel In America after war. Tzelimer Rav was first to found a yeshiva in America after war
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Laiya




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 4:14 pm
Some Jewish communities in Latvia were established by Jews fleeing the Chelmenytsky(sp?) pogroms of 1648.
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Raisin




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 4:18 pm
Oliver Sacks was the Uncle of Jonathan Sacks. Strangely, when you google this 2 contradicting results come up. One saying they are not related ( https://leftfootforward.org/20.....uary/ )the other an obit by Rabbi Sacks on his uncle. https://www.theguardian.com/bo.....nings

They really do look alike.
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sub




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 4:27 pm
If you knead dough with your ring on your finger, you don’t have to remove it for ntilat yadayim
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SuperWify




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 4:48 pm
The story with George Washington and the menorah at valley Forge is complete.. well forgery-

https://people.ucalgary.ca/~el......html
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windchime




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 5:28 pm
yerushamama wrote:
Binyamin was a werewolf

source: Otzer P'laos HaTorah
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That is really scary. What is it suppose to mean?
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MiriFr




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 5:30 pm
sub wrote:
If you knead dough with your ring on your finger, you don’t have to remove it for ntilat yadayim


Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Cool!
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Laiya




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 5:38 pm
In Dec. 1862, Ulysses S. Grant issued an order expelling all Jews from Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee. President Lincoln revoked it 3 weeks later.
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PinkFridge




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 5:41 pm
Raisin wrote:
Oliver Sacks was the Uncle of Jonathan Sacks. Strangely, when you google this 2 contradicting results come up. One saying they are not related ( https://leftfootforward.org/20.....uary/ )the other an obit by Rabbi Sacks on his uncle. https://www.theguardian.com/bo.....nings

They really do look alike.


That is an elegant obit. And maybe they do look alike. But is it the same Jonathan Sacks?
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bbhem5




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 5:51 pm
The first Parah Adumah had a name - Batsheva Eim Shlomo.
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pause




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 5:59 pm
Not everyone agrees that onion is shehakol unless fried. There are sects who hold raw onion is ha'adama.
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Laiya




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 6:12 pm
Some Jewish communities in Southern Hungary were established by Jews moving southward from Austria in the second half of the 1700's, following Joseph II's Edicts of Tolerance that finally gave permission to Jews to live in different areas.
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Cmon be nice




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 6:26 pm
sub wrote:
If you knead dough with your ring on your finger, you don’t have to remove it for ntilat yadayim

When do you not have to remove it? When you wash for that bread that you kneaded?
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giselle




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 6:53 pm
Cmon be nice wrote:
When do you not have to remove it? When you wash for that bread that you kneaded?


I believe the concept is that if you never remove your ring, it’s not a chatzitza.
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ccwife




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 6:56 pm
sub wrote:
If you knead dough with your ring on your finger, you don’t have to remove it for ntilat yadayim


I've heard that! Everyone should ask their own shaila though. I was told that we don't hold of it.
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little neshamala




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 7:09 pm
Laiya wrote:
In Dec. 1862, Ulysses S. Grant issued an order expelling all Jews from Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee. President Lincoln revoked it 3 weeks later.


What!!!
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Cmon be nice




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 8:02 pm
giselle wrote:
I believe the concept is that if you never remove your ring, it’s not a chatzitza.

Similar to mikva
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singleagain




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 8:16 pm
Cmon be nice wrote:
Similar to mikva


On that note. My sister has several earring in her ear, some of which she never takes out therefore she was told it wasn't a chatiza for mikvah.
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sub




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 9:10 pm
Gingertop
Thank you for starting this thread.
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Einikel




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Jul 10 2019, 9:16 pm
Fleishman’s was bought by a Jew, Fleishman,after he stayed in that area and was denied entry in a hotel because he was Jewish.
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