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15 Facts You Should Know About the Jews of France

The country with the largest Jewish population, after the Land of Israel, French Jews have experienced both severe persecution and incredible growth.
10 Questions: Take the Jewish Kingdoms Quiz

Do you know which Jewish kingdom once flourished in southern Arabia?
Your Questions
How Do We Know There Won't Be Another Exile After This One?

The Jewish people have been redeemed twice before—once from Egyptian servitude and again from Babylonian exile. So what is it about the current dispersion that assures us the next redemption will be a permanent homecoming?
What Does the Name Fruma Mean?

Fruma is a Jewish girls’ name, whose meaning is not as straightforward as you might think!
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Project Purpose

Project Purpose, an 18-week journey toward discovering and actualizing your unique purpose in life.
The Freeman Files
The Moon and Us

To an ancient Greek or a Hindu, passive stillness is masculine, activity and motion are feminine. To a Taoist, action is masculine and passiveness is feminine. In other words, if it is a virtue it is masculine. The Jew turns the pyramid on its head
Halachah for Life
What You Need to Know About Warming Food on Shabbat

Forgot to put up the cholent before Shabbat—are you stuck with cold food?
Birthday
Parshah
What Does the Word “Pekudei” Mean?

While it is commonly translated as “numbers” or “accounting” the term also lends itself to other interpretations.
Getting to Know You

I find that life has gotten difficult. I wonder why G‑d has chosen to give me ALS.
Hear O Israel, the L-rd our G-d, the L-rd is one
— Deuteronomy 6:4
Print Magazine

When G‑d makes a miracle, it is so that afterwards we may look at the natural order of things and say, “I recognize this. This is not what it appears to be. This, too, is a miracle.”

Torat Menachem, Maamarim Melukat 2, pg. 100.

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