Word: mezuzah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jewish prayer book) in the home. A third commands Jews to give charity, and as a reminder the Lubavitchers pass out charity boxes to be kept and filled in the home. A fourth commandment requires a householder to keep on each doorpost (except that of the bathroom) a mezuzah -a small container holding a handwritten parchment with a scriptural passage on the unity...
...fifth commandment requires a demonstration for many who visit the vans: putting on tefillin, the phylacteries that Orthodox Jewish males over 13 must wear on their foreheads and left arms (near the heart) during weekday prayer. The tefillin-two small leather boxes containing scriptures similar to those in the mezuzah and wound on with leather thongs-are a sign that the wearer subjugates his heart and mind to God. Wrapping on the tefillin for the first time is the high point of the Jewish religious initiation for males, the bar mitzvah ceremony. When an uninitiated Jewish male drops...
...successes. Benjamin Cardozo replaced Oliver Wendell Holmes on the Supreme Court. Annie Nathan Meyer founded Barnard College at age 22. The Revolution would have been fought, but almost certainly not won, without Sephardic money. Then there was Uriah Levy. He fought anti-Semitism in the U.S. Navy, kept a mezuzah outside his cabin door, and finally, when he was advanced to the rank of commander in 1837, whimsically painted the guns on his ship a bright blue...