Torah
This story from Bereishit is often cited as the first example of hospitality by a Jew/Israelite in the Torah
What is Abraham welcoming strangers ("angels?") into his tent?
A century ago, if you said someone had “taken her honor,” it meant this crime had been committed against her.
What is rape?
This word comes from Russian, and describes a violent riot meant to kill or expel a group of people, originally Jews. The most famous one happened in Kishinev in 1903.
What is a pogrom?
This newspaper, now read mostly in English online, was the widest-read socialist Yiddish newspaper in the United States.
What is The Forward / Der Forvertz?
This commandment appears 36 times in the Torah with different verbs, but all serving as roots of Jewish ways of viewing migrants.
What is welcoming/loving/caring for the stranger?
Many Jewish (and other immigrant) women in late 19th- and early 20th-century U.S. cities worked in this trade. Hint: it’s the reason for last Wednesday’s Yom Delet.
What are the needle trades or garment industry or working in "shirts/shirtwaists?"
HIAS, a Jewish organization that has helped settle refugees for over a century, was originally an acronym for these 4 words.
What is the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
This advice column in a daily Jewish socialist newspaper means “A bundle of letters."
What was A Bintel Brief?
This is the Yiddish version of the Hebrew toponym (place name) Gei Hinnom, a site in Biblical times of child sacrifice and later used metaphorically to mean “hell.”
What is Gehenna?
This is the term for a Jewish woman who cannot remarry because her spouse is missing or refuses to grant her a Jewish divorce document.
What is an agunah or anchored woman?
Also called “the workman’s disease” or “consumption,” this disease was very common among poor Eastern European immigrants who worked in sweatshops in densely-packed urban neighborhoods.
What is tuberculosis or TB?
In the early 20th century, “Freethinkers” went against traditionalist in their ideas about this.
What is God, but also religion in general?