When Cleopatra Was A Jewish Queen – OpEd eurasiareview.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eurasiareview.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Although Jewish people usually, but not always, share a common gene pool, they are not a race because any non-Jew who converts to Judaism will be recognized as being Jewish by all those rabbis who share a commitment to the same denomination of Judaism as the rabbi who did the conversion. So what really could be considered to constitute ‘Jewishness’?
Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse,
One of the volumes of the Talmud is entitled Megillah. It discusses the rules relating to the reading of Megillah-the book of Esther, and the events and characters in the book. The following selections are from pages 15 and 16 of that volume.
The prophet Jeremiah is a descendant of Rahab the harlot. Rabbi Judah says: Hulda the prophetess was also one of the descendants of Rahab the harlot. She converted to Judaism and married Joshua. Our Rabbis taught: her very name (Rahab means broad) inspired lust. R. Isaac said: Whoever says Rahab, Rahab at once has an erection. R. Nahman said to him: I say Rahab, Rahab and nothing happens to me!
Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse,
My articled below appeared on ISLAMICITY on April 1, 2021
The North African Jewish festival of Mimouna (pronounced Meemuna), a 24-hour food-centered traditional celebration of Muslim-Jewish trust, will be celebrated in Israel on April 4-5 this year.
For many centuries Moroccan Jewish homes were purged of leavened bread during the week of Passover. At the end of Passover, Jews could eat bread and pastry, but they had no flour at all in their homes to bake with until their Muslim neighbors came by to return the flour that the Jews had entrusted to them.