Aleutian Islands
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Aleutian Islands, USA Named after the inhabitants of the islands, the Aleuts, whose name may be derived from the Russian
aleaut ‘bald rock’.
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Ben-Eliezer: We believe kidnapped soldiers are alive
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 8/5/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...ARIEH O'SULLIVAN and DAVID RUDGE, Greer Fay Cashman...05-2001 Headline: Ben-Eliezer: We believe...ARIEH O'SULLIVAN and DAVID RUDGE, Greer Fay Cashman...Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said over the...Secretary-General Kofi Anan for ordering the inquiry...
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A Short History of the Karaites
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 8/6/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...synagogue which they named after Anan ben David, the traditional founder of Karaism...according to its plain meaning. Anan ben David, a well-known Babylonian scholar...Karaites originated separately from Anan ben David and his followers, and only in...
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Different Rendition
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 8/6/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...built by the tradition's founder, Anan ben David, after he fled from Babylonia to...synagogue in the late 13th century. The Anan synagogue remains a testament to...before entering, according to Haggai Ben-Shammai, Director of the Ben Zvi...
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True Believers
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 10/23/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...had heard her grandmother tell of Anan Ben- David, the eighth-century founder of...tombstones are marked with a Star of David and the names are written in Hebrew...compared it to Chufut-Kale, where Anan Ben-David was said to have built another synagogue...
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O brother...
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 6/27/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Historians usually attribute the founding of Karaism to Anan ben David, an eighth-century Babylonian Jew who opposed the hegemony...Babylonian Talmud and the tradition of the Oral Law. Anan believed that Jewish law must follow the strict meaning...
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The Body as Storyteller: Karaite Women's Experience of Blood and Milk
Magazine article from: Journal of American Folklore; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...common era, to the political-religious rift between Anan Ben David and mainstream Rabbinic Judaism concerning the authority...the Karaite need for "formation and differentiation" (Ben-Sasson 1950). Today it is this extraordinary balance...
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Ozick Returns, Still Aflush With Ideas; Heir to the Glimmering World
Newspaper article from: Forward; 9/10/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...and esoteric apostates and subverters of received wisdom are "as dear to [Rudi] as his children": men like Anan ben David, Salmon ben Jeroham and especially Jacob al-Kirkisani, who declared that God Himself is a heretic since He disbelieves...
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EDGE OF TOWN: Karaites, Come Home; One of the Ten Lost Tribes has continuity problems, too.
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Week; 2/11/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...observance is not as high a value among Karaites, as it is among the denominationally fractured mainstream Jews. Anan Ben-David, perhaps the most revered Karaite Hacham (wise man), used to teach, "Search thoroughly in the Torah and do not...
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A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine Period
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic covers the following sources: Babylonian Talmud, Geonic writings, the works of Anan ben David (the forerunner of Karaism), incantation bowls and magical texts, Masoretic texts, and varia. After a twelve...
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Karaites mourn their victim
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 3/28/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...provision; since its founding in the eighth century CE by Anan Ben-David, the sect has alternately faced harsh condemnation...imagery of the 10 commandments, menorot, and Stars of David. And similar to Orthodox tradition, the hall is for...
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Anan ben David
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Anan ben David Anan ben David (active 8th century) was a Jewish religious leader in Babylonia who is believed to have founded the Karaite, or Scripturalist, sect about 760. The members of the sect were originally known as Ananites. The account...
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Bostanai ben Chaninai
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bostanai ben Chaninai , c.618-670, first Jewish exilarch (i.e., ruler of the Jewish exiles in Babylonia) under Arab rule. He is the subject of many legends. His name is also spelled Bustanai ben Haninai. Anan ben David is said to have been among his descendants.
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Karaites
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Karaite sect of Judaism is believed to have been founded by Anan ben David in Baghdad at the beginning of the eighth century. The teachings of ben David were directed against the influence of the Talmud and...
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Ananites
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ananites see Anan ben David ; Karaites .
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