Yehoshua Kahane
By Yehoshua Kahane
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Yiddish World Are those 36 hidden righteous people walking among us?
This is a translation from the story written in Hasidic Yiddish. Read the original here. When I was a kid, I used to read stories late at night on Fridays about the great Hasidic tzadikim, the righteous ones. Some of these stories were about the lamed-vovniks, the 36 hidden tzadikim among us on whose merits…
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Yiddish World How Sephardic Culture Shaped Ultra-Orthodox Judaism
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Sephardi Jews often complain that Ashkenazim dominate Jewish culture to the point that they are losing aspects of their own cultural identity. The way one studies in a typical Yeshiva, the type of food eaten in honor of the Sabbath, the music, the men’s clothing, everything symbolizing…
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