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The Parochet (Curtain) in the Mishkan (Video)

Parochet (Hebrew: פרוכת) (also paroches, parokhet) is the curtain on the front of the Aron Kodesh (Torah Ark) in a synagogue that covers the Sifrei Torah (Torah scrolls). In most cases, behind the parochet is also a door. This curtain represents the covering that was on the original Ark of the Covenant. The term parochet is used in the Bible to describe the curtain that separated the Kodesh Hakodashim (Holy of Holies) from the main hall of the Temple in Jerusalem. The parochet used in the Temple was made from wool and linen, and was exempt from the laws of Shatnez, which apply only to clothing worn on the body, not to furnishings in a building. Shemot / Exodus 26:31-35 describes this curtain as it existed in the desert Tabernacle. It separated the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies. Only the Cohen HaGadol was allowed to pass [...]

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Jewish Roots, Jewish Studies, Video of the Week, Zionism

Short History of Italian Jews (Videos)

Short History of Italian Jews (Videos)

Italy is located centrally in the Mediterranean sea and served as an important crossroad and an intersection between North and South, East and West, Sephardic and Ashkenazi culture. That’s why Italy has a very important role in Jewish history and genealogy. Italy contains some of the oldest Jewish Communities in Europe. Jews arrived in South ...

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Anti-Semites, Jewish Roots, Jewish Studies, Video of the Week

Jewish wars?: Against All Odds (Video)

Jewish wars?: Against All Odds (Video)

In 1974, Rabbi Asher Wade, a US Army chaplain, befriended a Jewish American officer named Stuart. Stuart did not strike him as being a religious man and so Rabbi Wade was surprised one day to see Stuart wearing a yarmulke (skullcap). Upon questioning Stuart’s reasons for donning this unconventional attire, Stuart told Rabbi Wade the fascinati ...

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Anusim, Castellano, Video of the Week

¿Quienes son los Judios Marranos? (Videos)

¿Quienes son los Judios Marranos? (Videos)

El término marrano hace referencia a los judíos convertidos externamente al cristianismo Catolico en las coronas de Castilla y Portugal y que siguieron observando clandestinamente sus costumbres y su religión original. ambién se les ha denominado judaizantes o cripto-judíos, por su parte, los judíos sefard& ...

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How to Videos, Jewish Roots, Video of the Week

Why of Yarmulka, Skullcaps, Kippah (Videos)

Why of Yarmulka, Skullcaps, Kippah (Videos)

Wearing of a head covering (yarmulka, skullcaps, kippah [pl. kippot]) for men was only instituted in Talmudic times (approximately the second century CE). The first mention of it is in Tractate Shabbat, which discusses respect and fear of God. Some sources likened it to the High Priest who wore a hat (Mitznefet) to remind him something was always b ...

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Video of the Week, Zionism

God’s Jewish Warriors (Videos)

God's Jewish Warriors (Videos)

The first part of the series is one of the most grossly distorted programs to appear on mainstream American television in many years (Aired in 2008). CNN’s "God’s Warriors," hosted by Christiane Amanpour, is a three-part series intended to examine the growing role of religious fundamentalism in today’s world. Unfortunate ...

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Newsletter, Toronto Pride Parade, Video of the Week

Homosexuality in the Buff

Homosexuality in the Buff

The Science of Homosexuality: “Well I was born this way – God created me this way – God made me a homosexual” Due to the Fall of Mankind and sin entering the world it opened the door for physical degenerations, mutations, and physical and medical anomalies in the human genome as well as chemical imbalances and deficiencies i ...

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Israel, Jewish Roots, News, Video of the Week, Zionism

Jerusalem – Israel’s eternal capital (Videos)

Jerusalem - Israel's eternal capital (Videos)

Yom Yerushalayim / Jerusalem Day – the Israeli government proclaimed the holiday of “Jerusalem Day” for the 28th of Iyar, corresponding to the date that the Israeli military liberated those parts of Jerusalem which had previously been in Arab possession. In 1967 – 19 years after the establishment of the State in 1948 – ...

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Anusim, Jewish Roots, Jewish Studies, Video of the Week

The Marranos Jews (Videos)

The Marranos Jews (Videos)

The story of the Marranos, the lost Jews from Spain, started in the 14th century when the Spanish Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church persecuted the large Jewish community in Spain and Portugal. Many Jews preferred to die rather than to give up their faith and convert. Many other Jews were forced to become Christians. Despite this, the church ...

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Jewish Roots, Jewish Studies, Video of the Week

Cochini Jews – Malabar Jews (Videos)

Cochini Jews - Malabar Jews (Videos)

The Jews of India aren’t one singular community. Among themselves they are divided into different communities. Each community has its own different culture, background and origin. Each community claims its arrival in India in different ways and it is not always clear how they really came to India. The three main Jewish communities of India ar ...

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Anusim, Jewish Roots, Jewish Studies, Video of the Week

Jews in India – Bene Israel (Video)

Jews in India - Bene Israel (Video)

The largest Jewish community of Indian Jews is that of the Bene Israel. Earlier the Bene Israel lived in the villages of west Maharashtra in the Konkan coast. In the nineteenth century they started moving to the cities, mainly to Bombay (now called Mumbai) and to other cities among them Pune, Ahmadabad and Karachi which is now part of Pakistan. Fro ...

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Jewish Roots, Jewish Studies, News, Video of the Week

Jews of Iran (Videos)

Jews of Iran (Videos)

The beginnings of Jewish history in Iran date back to late Biblical times. The biblical books of Isaiah, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Chronicles, and Esther contain references to the life and experiences of Jews in Persia. In the book of Ezra, the Persian kings are credited with permitting and enabling the Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild their T ...

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Anusim, Castellano, Video of the Week

Benei Anusim y la inquisición (Video Serie)

Benei Anusim y la inquisición (Video Serie)

La comunidad judía en españa no gozó de paz ni con cristianos ni con musulmanes, a penas breves periodos de calma, más por intereses políticos de unos y otros dominadores que por un deseo real de convivencia. Perseguidos y acosados por cristianos y musulmanes, finalmente los judíos españoles fueron f ...

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Parasha Vayechi, Torah, Video of the Week

Unrecognized Mashiach: Mashiach ben Yosef

Unrecognized Mashiach: Mashiach ben Yosef

Yosef said to his brothers, "I am about to die and God will remember you (pakod yifkod) and bring you up from this land to the land which He swore about to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya’akov." (Bereishit 50:24) The words "pakod yifkod" – God will remember you – were not only his parting words, but the very wo ...

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Israel, Jewish Studies, Video of the Week, Zionism

The land of Israel – אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל‎ – Eretz Yisrael (Videos)

The land of Israel – אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל‎ –  Eretz Yisrael (Videos)

Every one who knows the problems of territory, religion, education, and simple racial hate and international involvement, knows that the greatest problem of all is related to the Bible. Jews have for the two thousand years of exile among the nations dreamed of returning to the land of their forefathers, the land of Israel, between the Jordan River ...

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