Human Interest
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Born in 1924, Pearl Hinda Nagel endured unimaginable suffering. She lost her father as a child and her mother in the Lodz Ghetto. She survived forced labor, hunger, and the concentration camps, and then rebuilt a family and a life from nothing. Having witnessed both the worst and the best of humanity, she believes that […]
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Jewish sources have a lot to say about money. Scattered across the Talmud and its commentaries is a body of financial wisdom that Buffett, Graham, and Munger would only formalize thousands of years later. Here are ten Jewish rules that still hold up. 1. Diversify — never stake everything on one position The ancient source […]
Enessa Arielah was born in Moscow during a time when being Jewish was something that could limit your freedom and place an invisible mark upon your life. She grew up knowing exactly who she was, and knowing that her identity was not always safe to reveal. Her father, Eliyahu, was a Sephardic Jew from a […]
From roughly 850 to 1200 CE, following the rise of the Abbasid Caliphate, an estimated 90% of Jews worldwide lived in the Islamic world and spoke Arabic as their native tongue. But Arabic wasn't merely a new vessel for old ideas. It became the language in which Jews produced original, groundbreaking works of philosophy, grammar, […]
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Aleeza Ben Shalom, the matchmaker you know from Netflix's Jewish Matchmaking, reveals why so many brilliant, successful women walk away from the right person.
