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Did Jews Abandon the Temple Mount?

The claim that no Jewish temple ever existed in Jerusalem and that Jews have no rights whatsoever on the Temple Mount is part of the "temple denial" doctrine that has been increasingly internalized in Palestinian academic, religious, and political

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Why did medieval haggadot include images of men pointing at their wives?

This long-forgotten Passover custom was dealt a bitter blow by a sharp wife in a 15th-century Haggadah.

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How did the letter ayin become a vowel in Yiddish?

A recent article on the website, Seforim Blog, compares the phonetics of biblical Hebrew and Arabic. In the post, the author, Rabbi Avi Grossman, remarks that he “cannot fathom” why the letter ayin (ע) in Yiddish became a vowel roughly equivalent to the Latin letter E and asks his readers if anyone can explain how this spelling convention came about. The article provoked a lively discussion on Facebook among Yiddish writers and linguists but none of them were able to answer the query. If you think about it, though, one could just as easily ask: how did the letter hey (ה) evolve into the Latin E and why did ayin (ע) turn into the letter O? The Greek alphabet was created about 2,800 years ago and modeled on the Phoenician alphabet, the ancestor of the Hebrew and Arabic alphabets. Most Greek dialects of the time had no H sound, let alone the Semitic guttural consonant represented by ayin (ע), so the ancient Greeks turned these two consonants into vowels. The Latin alphabet the

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