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Thanksgivukkah — why it’s so American, so Jewish and so important

What do you get when you cross Hanukkah with Thanksgiving? Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, I know, but it is so much more. Hanukkah and Thanksgiving coincide this year for the first time since 1888, and will…

Hobby shop magnate’s own passion is massive collection of Bible artifacts

This manuscript contains the Gospels, Eusebian Canon Tables and portraits of the Evangelists. Each Gospel begins with a folio written with gold-over-magenta. Similar to other eastern Mediterranean and Palestinian Gospel manuscripts, it ; ;was copied ;in 1156 for the ;John…