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Israel Baer Kursheedt
(1766-1852)
 Mr. Kursheedt was
born at Singhafen, on the Rhine, on the 4th day of
Passover, 5526 (6th of April, 1766). He early lost
his father, whereupon his mother removed to the
village named Kursheidt, near Königswinter, from
which circumstance, as was formerly often done by
Germans who had no family name, he took, as a
surname, the title of Kursheedt, in addition to that
of Israel Bear, as he was originally called. His
friends, discovering in him mental powers of no
common order, sent him to the rabbinical college mentioned
above, and he was, perhaps, the last survivor of
that glorious band who
enjoyed
the instruction of the truly wise and pious Nathan
Adler.
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The
Jewish Wedding Guide
Jewish-history.com is
delighted to announce the wedding of our dear
son,
Aryeh Leib Berkowitz, to
Chanie Posner in Birmingham,
Alabama!
 Jewish law enjoins the entire community to bring joy and happiness to both the
Kallah
(bride) and Choson (groom).
Most of the laws and customs relating to the wedding ceremony, its preparations and
Seudas
Mitzvah (festive reception meal) date back to our Patriarchs and the giving of the Torah
at Sinai.
There may be those who are somewhat unfamiliar with the procedures, laws and customs of
what takes place at a traditional wedding. The following is a brief guide to some of the
laws and customs of marriage. It is our
fervent hope that this will enhance your knowledge and add to your appreciation of the
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Mordecai M. Noah: American Zionist
 Discourse
on the Restoration of the Jews, Delivered at the Tabernacle, N.
Y., Oct. 28, and Dec. 2, 1844, by M. M. Noah. New York, 1845, 8vo. pp.
55.Mr.
Noah’s object seems to be to excite the American Christians, and
especially the ladies and gentlemen belonging to the various conversion
societies to unite in a plan, to urge upon the Sultan of the Ottoman
Empire to allow the Jews to hold land in Syria, and then to aid all
those who may be willing to emigrate thither with the requisite means to
establish themselves there as an independent and republican people. We
are not bold enough to hazard the assertion that such a plan is
absolutely impracticable, or that it is altogether opposed to Scripture
to encompass in the manner indicated, the primary restoration of the
Jews. Besides it would appear from the letter from Jurburg, published
in The Orient which we gave in
the last number of our magazine, that
many of our people living under the iron sway of Russia, ardently desire
the consummation of some project of the kind. But we apprehend, that the
difficulty will not be found with the Turkish government, which has
latterly, since the accession of Abdul Medjid to the throne, and since
the persecution at Damascus, granted the Jews an equality of rights, (at
least it was so stated in the papers of the day,) with other Rajahs or
non-Mussulman inhabitants, which equality we presume, includes the right
of holding real estate.
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April 27, 1865 by Emma Lazarus
 The flight, pursuit, and remorse of Lincoln's assassin are vividly portrayed by a
teenage Emma Lazarus in this poem. She chose for her title the date of John Wilkes Booth's
capture and death, in error giving it a day later than it actually occurred. This poem
first appeared in 1867, in "Poems and Translations by Emma Lazarus,
Written Between the Ages of Fourteen and Seventeen." Because of the
ambiguous title, this piece has gone unnoticed by most Lincoln scholars.
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