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This priest also reported that upon the birth of a first son, a Zacatee father refused food for twenty-four hours and then imbibed a “brew concocted of a root called peyot.”
One River Wade Davis 1996
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This priest also reported that upon the birth of a first son, a Zacatee father refused food for twenty-four hours and then imbibed a “brew concocted of a root called peyot.”
One River Wade Davis 1996
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A crowd of people from Givat Shaul, with peyot (earlocks), most of them religious (Haredi), came into the village and started yelling “gazlanim” “rozchim”Oren(Quote)
The Volokh Conspiracy » Only 6% of Jewish Israelis think Obama is Pro-Israel, 2009
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Yesterday, amidst it all, one of my rabbonim, in a bekeishe, with peyot tightly curled down to his chin and a beard to his belly button, turned to us in shiur and asked if any of us were homophobic or anti-homosexual, and proceeded to chastise anyone who might harbor those views.
Jerusalem Pride March: it just keeps getting worse by Ariel | Jewschool 2006
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He describes the rabbis as non-English speakers with long peyot, sidecurls.
FailedMessiah.com 2008
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He describes the rabbis as non-English speakers with long peyot, sidecurls.
FailedMessiah.com 2008
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He describes the rabbis as non-English speakers with long peyot, sidecurls.
FailedMessiah.com 2008
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