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Disruptive Repentance: Protesting in the Morning Service at Waitangi in 1983

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 96-109, March 2026.
In 1983 on Waitangi Day, nine Pākehā Christian protesters (including Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist ministers) were arrested and charged with disorderly behaviour for interrupting the morning church service at Waitangi. In solidarity with Māori activists and wider protests, they sought to draw attention to the longstanding failure of the ...
Michael Mawson
wiley   +1 more source

Juifs d'Istanbul, territorialités d'une communauté entre recompositions et dislocations

open access: yesEchoGéo, 2011
Since more than seven centuries, Jews are in Istanbul. The origins and locations of the community, quite homogeneous from the time of Ottoman Empire, become more complex through twentieth century.
Yoann Morvan
doaj   +1 more source

Reform or Consensus? Choral Synagogues in the Russian Empire

open access: yesArts, 2020
Many scholars view the choral synagogues in the Russian Empire as Reform synagogues, influenced by the German Reform movement. This article analyzes the features characteristic of Reform synagogues in central and Western Europe, and demonstrates that ...
Vladimir Levin
doaj   +1 more source

Genetics of infertility and “assisted fertilization” in the Bible: The case of Abraham and his family

open access: yesAndrology, Volume 14, Issue 3, Page 641-650, March 2026.
Abstract Couple infertility is a very ancient medical condition. One of the first descriptions of familial infertility/subfertility is contained in the first book of the Bible, Genesis, written in the 10th century BC and reporting tales from the oral tradition even occurred about 800 years earlier.
Manuela Simoni   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Jewish community museum as a result of citizen activities [PDF]

open access: yesSlovenský Národopis, 2015
The study focuses on circumstances under which the Jewish Community Museum was established and officially opened in the Bratislava synagogue in 2012. Already prior to WWII, a respected architect and collector Eugen Barkány came with the idea of opening ...
Peter Salner
doaj  

'Languishing from a distance': Louis Meyer and the demise of the German Jewish ideal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Louis Meyer (1796-1869), a Polish-Jewish merchant living in the middle-sized Polish provincial town of Wloclawek, authored a broad range of literary works in the German language.
Guesnet, F
core  

“One Is a Frontier”: Settler Migration as Transmogrification

open access: yesSociological Forum, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 105-121, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the trajectories and framing strategies of American Jewish migrants to Palestine–Israel. Drawing on original in‐depth interviews with immigrants who migrated between 1976 and 2021, alongside interviews with and observations of an “aliyah” agency, it examines meaning‐making around spatial relocation in relation to the ...
Joseph Kaplan Weinger
wiley   +1 more source

Touro Synagogue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Touro Synagogue, in Newport, RI, is the oldest Jewish temple in uninterrupted use in the US. Every year the temple rereads the letter sent by George Washington to the congregation pledging the new government to the protection of the freedom of religion ...
Haas, William Paul
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Jewish Communities of Ulan-Ude and Chita (mid-1940s – early 1950s)

open access: yesЖурнал Фронтирных Исследований
The issue of the history of the Jewish communities in Ulan-Ude and Chita in the mid-1940s – early 1950s has not been a topic of specific studies in Russian historiography.
Elena S. Genina, Maria G. Leukhova
doaj   +1 more source

The History of the Curse on the Minim, a Jewish Prayer against Christians [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2016
The article analyses the scholarly debate on the origins of the curse on the minim and on whether it was uttered against Judeo-Christians. The curse on the minim is traditionally believed to have appeared in the late I century against Judeo- Christians ...
Maria Maksimova
doaj  

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