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Posts from the ‘Karaism’ Category

How the Jews in Elephantine, Egypt Celebrated Passover in 419 BCE. DO YOU HAVE TO BURN YOUR HAMETZ? IS WINE CHAMETZ? on April 3, 2015

Reading Shir Hashirim in the (Karaite) Synagogue on April 2, 2015

Was There Ever A Karaite Community in Hebron? on September 11, 2014

Avraham Firkovich; the Adventures and Foibles of a Karaite Maskil in 19th century Eastern Europe PART I on June 29, 2014

Is the Tet. Offensive On a Tombstone? on April 8, 2014

Did Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) Celebrate the exta-biblical holiday of Simchat Torah on September 25, 2013

Karaites, Samaritans and praying with a ‘minyan’. An Attempt at a Samaritan-Karaite Alliance in the 19th Century on January 24, 2012

To Pray at Graves or not to Pray? (Part I) on December 21, 2011

Probing the Earliest Origins of Tefillin (phylacteries) Part I on November 6, 2011