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Henrietta Szold at home, Jerusalem, circa 1922, (Wiki Commons)
As long as she made no demands to earn the title ‘rabbi,’ Henrietta Szold was the first woman, in 1903, allowed to attend classes at New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary. She would be celebrating her 160
th birthday today – born in Baltimore on December 21
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The word Hanukkah stems from the three-letter root word ח נ כ, meaning dedication. As we prepare for the Festival of Lights this week, we recall the Maccabees’ rededication of the Temple following the defeat of Antiochus’ Seleucid army that desecrated it.
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