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By the Numbers
10 Facts About the Jews of Brazil

Brazil has an ancient Jewish presence and was home to the first synagogue and rabbi in all of the Americas!
Take the Spies Debacle Quiz

Dive into the biblical account of the spies and discover what you know.
Your Questions
What Is the Seal of Solomon?

Although the six-pointed star has Kabbalistic significance, its connection to a specific seal belonging to Solomon is dubious at best.
Freeman Files
Pleasure: What It Is and How To Get It

Pleasure is an abandonment of the awareness that you are here, that you exist.
Voices
The Man from Afghanistan

“I’m Muslim,” he said. “I’m from Afghanistan. You’re Jewish. We help each other.”
Parshah
History
What Happened When Napoleon Offered a Jewish State in the Land of Israel

“Israelites, unique nation, whom, in thousands of years, lust of conquest and tyranny have been able to be deprived of their ancestral lands, but not of name and national existence!”
Do not judge your fellow until you have stood in his place
— Ethics of the Fathers 2:4