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  • Likewise, we have seen an experimental smattering of this sort of “infrastructure for independents” in initiatives such as Bikkurim and the Joshua Venture.

    The Next Big Jewish Idea: Jew It Yourself | Jewschool 2006

  • The growing field of parent organizations that nurture young start-ups, such as Bikkurim, PresenTense, Pears Foundation, JumpStart, Paideaia and UpStart Bay Area, do, to some extent, mitigate the risk for foundations and other investors in these new Jewish ideas.

    The Jewish Week (BETA) 2010

  • Hazon is becoming successful because of the Bikkurim grant system.

    Such Jews are not hipsters 2009

  • The reason women are exempt is because the land was not apportioned to them biblically except in the case of fathers who had only daughters (Mishnah Bikkurim 1: 5).

    Legal-Religious Status of the Jewish Female. leBeit Yoreh 2009

  • By merit of this marriage, the Holy One, blessed be He, forgave Esau all his sins (JT Bikkurim 3: 3, 65c – d).

    Esau, Wives of: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

  • Tosafot Kiddushin 35a relates to the exemption of women from Talmud Torah and redemption of the firstborn (Exodus 34: 20) which are two verses coming together to create an exclusion, here excluding women from obligation in positive time-bound mitzvot (Rambam, Talmud Torah 1: 1; Bikkurim 11: 2; Shulhan Arukh Y.D. 246: 6 and 305: 2).

    Legal-Religious Status of the Jewish Female. leBeit Yoreh 2009

  • In 1944 at Kibbutz Ein ha-Shofet, Yardena recreated the ancient festival of the ripening of the first fruits, Hag ha-Bikkurim, plus a Hag ha-Kerem or vineyard festival.

    Cohen, Yardena. 2009

  • In tannaitic literature the halakhic androgynos is most comprehensively discussed in the Tosefta (Bikkurim 2: 3 – 7), even though a slightly different but similar text appears in some editions of the Mishnah and is attached at the end of Tractate Bikkurim as its fourth chapter (Lieberman, 836).

    Gender Identity In Halakhic Discourse. 2009

  • That summer, in collaboration with members of Kibbutz Daliyyah, she organized, staged and produced a pageant for the feast of Shavuot, Hag ha-Bikkurim, based on the book of Ruth.

    Gurit Kadman. 2009

  • As Bruder of Bikkurim says, "Bikkurim wouldn't succeed without the unofficial partnerships we have with funders like UJA-Federation of NY, the Natan Fund, the Covenant Foundation, the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation, and other funders who see the gems in the rough and help provide the consistent funding to help them get over their initial start-up hump."

    The Jewish Week (BETA) 2010

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