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Purimfest 1946: The Nuremberg Trials and the Ten Sons of Haman

The small letters, tav, shin, and zayin in the list of Haman’s ten sons (Esther 9), with the combined numerical value of 707, are seen as a “prophetic” code hinting to the future hanging of the ten Nazis convicted at the Nuremberg trials in the year 5707, which Julius Streicher declared as “Purimfest 1946” before he was hanged. What is the origin of these small letters?

Dr.

Emmanuel Bloch

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Dr. Rabbi

Zvi Ron

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The Slaughter of Six Million Jews: A Holocaust or a Shoah?

What do the terms “holocaust” and “shoah” mean, and what do they reveal about how we view the respective roles of God and the Nazis in the Jewish genocide?

Prof.

Zev Garber

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The Psalm of the Shofar: Its Use in Liturgy and its Meaning in the Bible

Prof.

Alan Cooper

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The Proper Response to a Gestapo's Taunt?

Dr. Rabbi

Amit Kula

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How Do We Conceive the Divine?

Prof.

Marvin A. Sweeney

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The Cycle of Judahite and Edomite Violence

Dr. Rabbi

Binyamin (Benny) Lau

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When the God of Justice Goes Rogue

YHWH commissions Isaiah to distract the people of Judah so that they continue to sin and then YHWH can punish them harshly. In contrast to other biblical figures such as Abraham and Moses, Isaiah is silent at this injustice.

Prof.

Marvin A. Sweeney

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Using the Enemy as a Proxy

The unutterable events that happened to our infants

Rabbi

Yehudah Gilad

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