An Islamic Jihad Rocket Killed Abdullah Abu Jaba. Nobody Will Be Demanding Justice for Him
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May 17, 2023
Small Talk in Aramaic at the British Coronation
A rabbi and an archbishop walk into Westminster Abbey . . .
Much of the Talmud, such important prayers as kaddish, and various other sacred Jewish texts are written in Aramaic, once the lingua franca of much of the Middle East. Another dialect of the language is used in the Syrian Christian liturgy. Neither rabbis nor Syrian priests have much opportunity to use the tongue in conversation—but, as Jonathan Sacerdoti notes, there are exceptions. The coronation of Charles III was one:
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Small Talk in Aramaic at the British Coronation
A rabbi and an archbishop walk into Westminster Abbey . . .