Scholars reject his view and assign a date between 500 and 1,000 CE. A Gaon, the plural is Gaonim, was the head of one of the two Babylonian Talmudic Academies in the cities of Sura and Pumbedita.

Rabbi Poliatschek, who came to the United States seven years ago at the invitation of the Yeshiva, was counted as one of the Gaonim of the present age. He was born 51 years ago in Meitshet ...

A young Jewish woman from Glubokoye, in today’s northern Belarus, was with child. Nearing the end of her pregnancy, she had a nightmare about a huge fire engulfing her home. Her father, Rabbi Joshua ...

He quotes an otherwise lost explanation of this analogy from Rabbi Saadiah Gaon, the most prominent sage from the period of the Gaonim (9 th century Egypt, Eretz Yisrael, Babylonia): “For the ...

The Kaporos ritual dates back to the times of the Gaonim, and is observed in communities around the world. NCFJE’s head Rabbi JJ Hecht OBM revived the observance of kaparos in the early 1970s, with ...

NCFJE also thanks the Vaad of Beth Rivkah for accommodating the community. Kaporos is an ancient custom dating back to the times of the Gaonim, and observed in communities around the world. Executive ...

When you enter, you'll meet up with the Warden who will unleash Gaonim on the trio. This guy's a little tougher than the previous bosses were, but there's three of you now, so you should still be ...

After arriving in Poland for the Krakow Jewish Cultural Festival, I awoke in the night to the highlow scream of a police siren, like those from numerous World War II movies. Dream-heightened ...

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Even after the destruction of the Second Temple, the ‘Beit Din’ in the Land of Israel continued to sanctify months and intercalate the years. But over time the decrees of the Romans increased ...