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Mi Shebeirach, the Glossary

A is a Jewish prayer used to request a blessing from God.^[1]

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Addiction

Addiction is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge to use a drug or engage in a behavior that produces natural reward, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences.

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Aliyah (Torah)

An aliyah (or aliyah, Hebrew עליה; pl. עליות, aliyot; "ascent" or "going up") is the calling of a member of a Jewish congregation up to the bimah for a segment of the formal Torah reading.

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American Jewish Historical Society

The American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) was founded in 1892 with the mission to foster awareness and appreciation of American Jewish history and to serve as a national scholarly resource for research through the collection, preservation and dissemination of materials relating to American Jewish history.

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American Jewish History

American Jewish History is an academic journal and the official publication of the American Jewish Historical Society.

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APLA Health

APLA Health is a non-profit organization based in California, United States, focused on building healthcare capacity and promoting wellbeing for LGBT people and those living with HIV.

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Apostasy in Judaism

Apostasy in Judaism is the rejection of Judaism and possible conversion to another religion by a Jew.

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Ashkenazi Jews

Ashkenazi Jews (translit,; Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim, constitute a Jewish diaspora population that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE. They traditionally spoke Yiddish and largely migrated towards northern and eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages due to persecution.

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The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ) is a cross-disciplinary organization of individuals whose research concerns the Jewish people throughout the world founded in 1971.

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The Authorised Daily Prayer Book (formally The Authorised Daily Prayer Book of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire, commonly known as Singer's Prayer Book or Singer's Siddur) was an English translation of the Hebrew siddur created by Rabbi Simeon Singer.

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Š-L-M

Shin-Lamedh-Mem is a triconsonantal root of many Semitic words (many of which are used as names).

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Bar and bat mitzvah

A bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, or b mitzvah (gender neutral), is a coming-of-age ritual in Judaism.

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Beth Chayim Chadashim

Beth Chayim Chadashim (House of New Life), abbreviated as BCC, is a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 6090 West Pico Boulevard, in Mid-City Los Angeles, California, in the United States.

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Bikur cholim

Bikur cholim (ביקור חולים; "visiting the sick"; also transliterated bikur holim) refers to the mitzvah (Jewish religious commandment) to visit and extend aid to the sick.

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Bloch Publishing Company

Bloch Publishing Company is a Jewish publishing company in the United States.

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Brit milah

The brit milah (bərīṯ mīlā,,; "covenant of circumcision") or bris (ברית) is the ceremony of circumcision in Judaism and Samaritanism, during which the foreskin is surgically removed.

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Cancer support group

Cancer support groups are meetings that offer a safe space for people affected by cancer to share their experiences and emotions with other people who have cancer.

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Central Conference of American Rabbis

The Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), founded in 1889 by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, is the principal organization of Reform rabbis in the United States and Canada.

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Chaplain

A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution (such as a hospital, prison, military unit, intelligence agency, embassy, school, labor union, business, police department, fire department, university, sports club), or a private chapel.

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Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education

The Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education (CAJE), founded as the Coalition for Alternatives in Jewish Education, was a non-profit organization based in New York City.

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Common Era

Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.

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Congregation Ner Tamid

Congregation Ner Tamid, officially Congregation Ner Tamid of South Bay, is a Conservative Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 5721 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles, California, in the United States.

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Conservative Judaism

Conservative Judaism, also known as Masorti Judaism (translit), is a Jewish religious movement that regards the authority of Jewish law and tradition as emanating primarily from the assent of the people through the generations, more than from divine revelation.

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Contemporary Jewry

Contemporary Jewry is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry since 1977.

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CrossCurrents

CrossCurrents is a quarterly academic journal published by the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (before 1990, it was published by Convergence).

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David Abudarham

David Abudarham (fl. 1340) (ר׳ דָּוִד אַבּוּדַרְהָם), referred to as Abudarham, Abudraham, or Avudraham, was a rishon who lived in Seville in the 14th century and was known for his commentary on the siddur.

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Debbie Friedman

Deborah Lynn Friedman (February 23, 1951 – January 9, 2011)Horn, Jordana,, The Jerusalem Post, January 9, 2011Fox, Margalit,, The New York Times, January 11, 2011 was an American singer-songwriter of Jewish religious music, a feminist, and lover of music.

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Drorah Setel

Drorah Setel is an American biblical scholar and feminist theologian from Buffalo, New York, who was formerly a rabbi at Kadima Reconstructionist Community in Seattle, Washington, and Temple Beth El in Niagara Falls, NY.

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Eldering

Eldering was a term originally used by the Quakers to denote the religious training and education of young adults by their elders.

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Eliyahu Menachem of London

Eliyahu Menachem of London (1220-1284) was a rabbi and communal leader in 13th-century England.

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Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS

The global pandemic of HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) began in 1981, and is an ongoing worldwide public health issue.

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Ethnography

Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures.

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Faith healing

Faith healing is the practice of prayer and gestures (such as laying on of hands) that are believed by some to elicit divine intervention in spiritual and physical healing, especially the Christian practice.

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Fast of Behav

The Fast of Behav (תענית בה"ב) refers to a tradition of Ashkenazic Jews to fast on the Monday, Thursday, and then following Monday after the holidays of Sukkot and Pesach.

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Gates of Prayer

Gates of Prayer, the New Union Prayer Book (GOP) is a Reform Jewish siddur that was announced in October 1975 as a replacement for the 80-year-old Union Prayer Book (UPB), incorporating more Hebrew content and was updated to be more accessible to modern worshipers.

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Gender-neutral language

Gender-neutral language or gender-inclusive language is language that avoids reference towards a particular sex or gender.

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God in Judaism

In Judaism, God has been conceived in a variety of ways.

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Haftara

The haftara or (in Ashkenazic pronunciation) haftorah (alt. haftarah, haphtara, הפטרה) "parting," "taking leave" (plural form: haftarot or haftoros), is a series of selections from the books of Nevi'im ("Prophets") of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) that is publicly read in synagogue as part of Jewish religious practice.

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Haworth Press

Haworth Press was a publisher of scholarly, academic and trade books, and approximately 200 peer-reviewed academic journals.

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Hebrew language

Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.

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Heptatonic scale

A heptatonic scale is a musical scale that has seven pitches, or tones, per octave.

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History of the Jews in Arizona

Jewish people have been living in Arizona since the mid-1870s.

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History of the Jews in England (1066–1290)

The first Jews in England arrived after the Norman Conquest of the country by William the Conqueror (the future William I) in 1066, and the first written record of Jewish settlement in England dates from 1070.

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History of the Jews in France

The history of the Jews in France deals with Jews and Jewish communities in France since at least the Early Middle Ages.

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History of the Jews in Germany

The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321 CE, and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High Middle Ages (circa 1000–1299 CE) when Jewish immigrants founded the Ashkenazi Jewish community.

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HIV

The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of Lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans.

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HIV/AIDS

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.

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Incipit

The incipit of a text is the first few words of the text, employed as an identifying label.

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Irreligion

Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices.

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Israel Defense Forces

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym, is the national military of the State of Israel.

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California

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Janet Marder

Janet Marder was the first female president of the Reform Movement's Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), which means she was the first woman to lead a major rabbinical organization and the first woman to lead any major Jewish co-ed religious organization in the United States; she became president of the CCAR in 2003.

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Jason Aronson

Jason Aronson was an American publisher of books in the field of psychotherapy.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (Aramaic: ארמית) was the form of Middle Aramaic employed by writers in Lower Mesopotamia between the fourth and eleventh centuries.

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Jewish feminism

Jewish feminism is a movement that seeks to make the religious, legal, and social status of Jewish women equal to that of Jewish men in Judaism.

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Jewish greetings

There are several Jewish and Hebrew greetings, farewells, and phrases that are used in Judaism, and in Jewish and Hebrew-speaking communities around the world.

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Jewish Lights Publishing

Jewish Lights Publishing is a publishing company.

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Jewish prayer

Jewish prayer (תְּפִילָּה,; plural; tfile, plural תּפֿלות; Yinglish: davening from Yiddish דאַוון 'pray') is the prayer recitation that forms part of the observance of Rabbinic Judaism. Mi Shebeirach and Jewish prayer are Jewish prayer and ritual texts.

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Jewish Publication Society

The Jewish Publication Society (JPS), originally known as the Jewish Publication Society of America, is the oldest nonprofit, nondenominational publisher of Jewish works in English.

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Jewish Renewal

Jewish Renewal is a Jewish religious movement originating in the 20th century that endeavors to reinvigorate modern Judaism with Kabbalistic, Hasidic, and musical practices.

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Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) is an international news agency and wire service that primarily covers Judaism- and Jewish-related topics and news.

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Jewish views on marriage

Marriage in Judaism is the documentation of a contract between a Jewish man and a Jewish woman in which God is involved.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University.

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Kabbalah

Kabbalah or Qabalah (קַבָּלָה|Qabbālā|reception, tradition) is an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought in Jewish mysticism.

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Key (music)

In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a musical composition in Western classical music, art music, and pop music.

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Khmelnytsky Uprising

The Khmelnytsky Uprising, also known as the Cossack–Polish War, or the Khmelnytsky insurrection, was a Cossack rebellion that took place between 1648 and 1657 in the eastern territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which led to the creation of a Cossack Hetmanate in Ukraine.

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Kol Bo

Kol Bo (כל-בו, 'all is in it') is a collection of Jewish ritual and civil laws.

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Kol Nidre

Kol Nidre (also known as Kol Nidrey or Kol Nidrei; Aramaic: כָּל נִדְרֵי kāl niḏrē) is a Hebrew and Aramaic declaration which is recited in the synagogue before the beginning of the evening service on the eve of Yom Kippur ("Day of Atonement").

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Lekha Dodi

Lekha Dodi (לכה דודי) is a Hebrew-language Jewish liturgical song recited Friday at dusk, usually at sundown, in synagogue to welcome the Sabbath prior to the evening services. Mi Shebeirach and Lekha Dodi are Jewish prayer and ritual texts.

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LGBT

is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".

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LGBT-affirming denominations in Judaism

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) affirming denominations in Judaism (also called gay-affirming) are Jewish religious groups that welcome LGBT members and do not consider homosexuality to be a sin. Mi Shebeirach and LGBT-affirming denominations in Judaism are LGBT and Judaism.

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List of LGBT rights activists

A list of notable LGBT rights activists who have worked to advance LGBT rights by political change, legal action or publication.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Macy Nulman

Macy Nulman (1923 – November 29, 2011) was an American Orthodox cantor and a scholar of Jewish music and Jewish liturgy.

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Marcia Falk

Marcia Falk is a poet, liturgist, painter, and translator who has written several books of poetry and prayer.

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Margaret Wenig

Margaret Moers Wenig (born 1957) is an American rabbi and writer.

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Matronymic

A matronymic is a personal name or a parental name based on the given name of one's mother, grandmother, or any female ancestor.

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Mental disorder

A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.

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Midrash

Midrash (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. מִדְרָשׁ; מִדְרָשִׁים or midrashot) is expansive Jewish Biblical exegesis using a rabbinic mode of interpretation prominent in the Talmud.

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Mincha

Mincha (מִנחַה, pronounced as; sometimes spelled Minchah, Minhah or Minchuh) is the afternoon prayer service in Judaism.

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Mishkan T'filah

Mishkan T'filah—A Reform Siddur is a prayer book prepared for Reform Jewish congregations around the world by the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR).

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Mitzvah

In its primary meaning, the Hebrew word (מִצְוָה, mīṣvā, plural מִצְווֹת mīṣvōt; "commandment") refers to a commandment from God to be performed as a religious duty.

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Modern Hebrew phonology

Modern Hebrew has 25 to 27 consonants and 5 to 10 vowels, depending on the speaker and the analysis.

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Non-binary gender

Non-binary and genderqueer are umbrella terms for gender identities that are outside the male/female gender binary.

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Nusach (Jewish music)

In Judaism, musical nusach refers the musical style or tradition of a community, particularly the chant used for recitative prayers such as the Amidah.

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Nusach Ashkenaz

Nusach Ashkenaz is a style of Jewish liturgy conducted by Ashkenazi Jews.

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Open Library

Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published".

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Open Siddur Project

The Open Siddur Project (פרויקט הסידור הפתוח, IPA: pʁojeqt hassidduʁ hapatuaħ) is an open-source, web-to-print publishing and digital humanities project intent on sharing the semantic data of Jewish liturgy and liturgy-related work with free-culture compatible copyright licenses and Public Domain dedications.

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Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is the collective term for the traditionalist branches of contemporary Judaism.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Patriarchs (Bible)

The patriarchs (אבות ʾAvot, "fathers") of the Bible, when narrowly defined, are Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob, also named Israel, the ancestor of the Israelites.

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Patronymic

A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor.

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Philip Birnbaum

Philip Birnbaum (March 30, 1904 – March 19, 1988) was an American religious author and translator.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Preoperative care

Preoperative care refers to health care provided before a surgical operation.

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Psalm 86

Psalm 86 is the 86th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me: for I am poor and needy".

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Rabbinical Assembly

The Rabbinical Assembly (RA) is the international association of Conservative rabbis.

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Reconstructionist Judaism

Reconstructionist Judaism is a Jewish movement based on the concepts developed by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1881–1983) that views Judaism as a progressively evolving civilization rather than just a religion.

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Reform Judaism

Reform Judaism, also known as Liberal Judaism or Progressive Judaism, is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of Judaism, the superiority of its ethical aspects to its ceremonial ones, and belief in a continuous revelation which is closely intertwined with human reason and not limited to the Theophany at Mount Sinai.

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ResearchGate

ResearchGate is a European commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators.

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Romanization of Hebrew

The Hebrew language uses the Hebrew alphabet with optional vowel diacritics.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Schlemiel

Schlemiel (שלומיאל; sometimes spelled shlemiel or shlumiel) is a Yiddish term meaning "inept/incompetent person" or "fool".

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Secular Jewish music

Since Biblical times, music has held an important role in many Jews' lives.

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Sentimental ballad

A sentimental ballad is an emotional style of music that often deals with romantic and intimate relationships, and to a lesser extent, loneliness, death, war, drug abuse, politics and religion, usually in a poignant but solemn manner.

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Sephardic Jews

Sephardic Jews (Djudíos Sefardíes), also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).

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Shabbat

Shabbat (or; Šabbāṯ) or the Sabbath, also called Shabbos by Ashkenazim, is Judaism's day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday.

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Shalom

Shalom (שָׁלוֹם. šālōm) is a Hebrew word meaning peace and can be used idiomatically to mean hello.

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Siddur

A siddur (סִדּוּר sīddūr,; plural siddurim סִדּוּרִים) is a Jewish prayer book containing a set order of daily prayers.

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Social stigma is the disapproval of, or discrimination against, an individual or group based on perceived characteristics that serve to distinguish them from other members of a society.

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Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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Stanford University Graduate School of Education

The Stanford University Graduate School of Education (Stanford GSE or GSE) is one of the top education schools in the United States.

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Stephen Fried

Stephen Fried is an American investigative journalist, non-fiction author, and lecturer who teaches at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.

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Tablet (magazine)

Tablet is a conservative-leaning online magazine focused on Jewish news and culture.

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Tallit

A tallit is a fringed garment worn as a prayer shawl by religious Jews.

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Talmudic academies in Babylonia

The Talmudic academies in Babylonia, also known as the Geonic academies, were the center for Jewish scholarship and the development of Halakha from roughly 589 to 1038 CE (Hebrew dates: 4349 AM to 4798 AM) in what is called "Babylonia" in Jewish sources, at the time otherwise known as Asōristān (under the Sasanian Empire) or Iraq (under the Muslim caliphate until the 11th century).

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Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.

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Ten Days of Repentance

In Judaism, the Ten Days of Repentance (ʿǍseret yəmēy təšūvā) are the first ten days of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, beginning with the Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah and ending with the conclusion of Yom Kippur.

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The Forward

The Forward (Forverts), formerly known as The Jewish Daily Forward, is an American news media organization for a Jewish American audience.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Reconstructionist Journal

The Reconstructionist Journal was a Jewish magazine published by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association.

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Tiberian Hebrew

Tiberian Hebrew is the canonical pronunciation of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) committed to writing by Masoretic scholars living in the Jewish community of Tiberias in ancient Galilee under the Abbasid Caliphate.

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Torah reading

Torah reading is a Jewish religious tradition that involves the public reading of a set of passages from a Torah scroll.

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Ukrainian Dorian scale

In music, the Ukrainian Dorian scale is a modified minor scale with raised 4th and 6th, and lowered 7th degrees, often with a variable 4th degree.

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Union for Reform Judaism

The Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), formerly known as the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) until 2003, founded in 1873 by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, is the congregational arm of Reform Judaism in North America.

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Union Prayer Book

The Union Prayer Book was a Siddur published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis to serve the needs of the Reform Judaism movement in the United States.

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University of North Carolina Press

The University of North Carolina Press (or UNC Press), founded in 1922, is a not-for-profit university press associated with the University of North Carolina.

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Vernacular

Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken form of language, particularly when perceived as being of lower social status in contrast to standard language, which is more codified, institutional, literary, or formal.

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Wedding anniversary

A wedding anniversary is the anniversary of the date that a wedding took place.

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Yekum Purkan

Yekum Purkan (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: יְקוּם פֻּרְקָן, lit. “may deliverance arise” or “may salvation arise”), is the name of two Aramaic prayers recited in the Ashkenazi Jewish liturgy immediately after the public reading of the Torah and the Prophets during the Sabbath morning service.

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Yoel Kahn

Yoel Kahan (February 14, 1930 – July 15, 2021) was a senior Chabad rabbi who worked for the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

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Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur (יוֹם כִּפּוּר) is the holiest day of the year in Judaism.

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Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller

Rabbi Gershon Shaul Yom-Tov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller (c. 157919 August 1654), was a Bohemian rabbi and Talmudist, best known for writing a commentary on the Mishnah called the Tosefet Yom-Tov (1614–1617).

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Yoreh De'ah

Yoreh De'ah (יורה דעה) is a section of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's compilation of halakha (Jewish law), Arba'ah Turim around 1300.

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Zeved habat

Zeved habat (- Gift of the Daughter) or Simchat Bat (Hebrew: - Celebration of the Daughter) is the Jewish naming ceremony for newborn girls.

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References

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LGBT and Judaism

Reform Judaism

Religion and HIV/AIDS

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