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Dance
In the Bible, Mishnah, and Talmud, dance is referred to in various contexts as an important ritualized activity and as an expression of joy. None of these references, however, contain descriptions of how the dancers actually moved. Read More »		 Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah
Lit. 'son/daughter of the commandment,' i.e., a person
under obligation, responsible), term denoting both the attainment
of religious and legal maturity as well as the occasion at which
this status is formally assumed... Read More »		 Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Heb. תֵּל־אָבִיב-יפָוֹ ), second biggest city in Israel, in the central part of the Coastal Plain, created in 1949 by the merger of Tel Aviv and Jaffa. Tel Aviv itself, the "first all-Jewish city" in modern times, was founded in 1909, originally as a garden suburb of Jaffa... Read More »		 Einstein, Albert
Physicist, discoverer of the theory of relativity, and Nobel Prize winner. Born in the German town of Ulm, son of the proprietor of a small electrochemical business, Einstein spent his early youth in Munich. Read More »