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13 Facts You Should Know About Bukharian Jews

Bukharian Jews have a rich history that spans thousands of years.
10 Questions: Take the European Jewish History Quiz

Which city currently has the largest Jewish population in Europe?
Your Questions
Do We Really Dip Only on Passover Night?

Don’t we dip apples into honey on Rosh Hashanah?
Q&A From Our Chabad.org Inbox (Installment #3)

How Do I Explain G-d to My Grandchildren?
Parshah
Why Did the Princes Donate Precious Stones?

Should they have donated more?
Without Guilt, From Their Hearts

Every man, woman and child can now give of themselves from a place of love and closeness.
History
The Dream and Downfall of the Tyrant of Jerusalem

How the Jewish community of Jerusalem was taken hostage by a cruel tyrant.
Jewish News
What It’s Like to Lead a Community in the Costa Rican Jungle

Santa Teresa is about as remote and exotic as you can possibly get.
"For they are My servants, whom I took out of the land of Egypt; they cannot be sold into slavery" (Leviticus 25:42). At the time of the Exodus, G-d made freedom the inherent and eternal state of the Jew; From that point on, no power or force on earth can subvert our intrinsic freedom...
— Maharal (Rabbi Judah Lowe of Prague)
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For a mitzvah is a candle and Torah is light. (Proverbs 6:23)

Every mitzvah shines its particular light into our world. And there will come a time when you will see that light with your eyes.

Except the candles that are lit for Shabbat before sunset. They shine a light you can see right now.

It may seem an ordinary li...

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