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While demonstrating the proper use of tallit, Rabbi Yoggev kindly stopped for a photo op. (Photo by Amanda Krotki, Jmore)
It was a chilly, get-under-the-covers-and-stay-there night when I arrived for my latest class of Rabbi Eli Yoggev’s Judaism for Beginners course at Beth Tfiloh.
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We’re looking for the cover model for our January pets issue.
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Situated in “Old Cairo,” the historic Ben Ezra Synagogue was the longtime home of the famed “Cairo Genizah,” a storeroom discovered in the 19th century containing Hebrew, Aramaic and Judeo-Arabic secular and sacred manuscripts. (File photo)
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