The Samaritan Bible & Destination Bar Mitzvahs

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The Samaritans’ Bible has 6,000 deviations from the standard Masoretic text. Photo from Haaretz.com.

Your Clicks for the week of May 19th: Samaritans & Karaites, and the trendy new “Destination Bar Mitzvah.” Read on!

Whose Bible is the “original” version, anyway? A new English translation of the Samaritan Torah makes the case that it is more authentic and narratively coherent. Let’s take it to a vote!

Cabo-Wabo, Anyone? The Destination Bar/Bat-Mitzvah and insight into an evolving American Jewish community.

Jewish women at the forefront of Arab music. A fascinating glimpse into a complex history of Jews in the Middle East.

Osama Bin-Laden’s son-in-law retains a Jewish lawyer. Oy vey.

Are Karaites Jews? Israel’s chief rabbinate is cracking down on the sect. Find out how they are responding.

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By Sarah Zaides|2017-09-04T22:42:35-07:00May 21st, 2013|Categories: Global Judaism|0 Comments

About the Author: Sarah Zaides

Sarah Zaides is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Washington. She holds the Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, was previously the Stroum and Althea Stroum Graduate Fellow and the Titus Ellison Fellow from the Jackson School of International Studies, and has been a recipient of fellowships from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Vidal Sassoon Center, and the US Department of State. She is currently at work on a dissertation titled "Tevye’s Ottoman Daughter: Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jewries in the Shatterzones of Empire 1882-1923," which follows the saga of Russian Jews in Constantinople and Western Anatolia on the eve of Turkish and Soviet statehood. When Sarah isn't writing her dissertation, you can find her chasing vitamin D or working toward her life goal of being able to play (at least) the first movement of each of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas.