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The branch of knowledge dealing with past events.

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Al Aqsa Intafada

History; Israeli history

A period of increased violence beginning in 2000. After years of mounting tension due to the failing Oslo Accords, violence broke out at the Al Aqsa Mosque that launched years of ...

early Judaism

History; Israeli history

Refers to Judaism in the intertestamental period (and slightly later) as a development from the religion of ancient Israel, but prior to the emergence of its classical, rabbinic ...

Palestinians

History; Israeli history

Although anyone with roots in the land that is now Israel, the West Bank and Gaza is technically a Palestinian, the term is now more commonly used to refer to Arabs with such ...

Midrash Lekah Tov

History; Israeli history

An 11th-century Midrash on the Torah and on the Five Megillot (Ruth, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, and Esther) by Tobias ben Eliezer; Balkans.

Chabad

History; Israeli history

An acronym for "Chochmah (wisdom), Binah (insight), Da'at (knowledge)", the code for the Labuvitch Chassidut philosophy.

CHAZAL

History; Israeli history

Blessed memory of the sages. A reference to authoritative opinion in the Talmud.

Pareveh

History; Israeli history

An adjective that qualifies a food, according to the Jewish laws of kashrut, that has neither dairy nor animal products in it and can be eaten with either.