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Is it permitted to have an American Flag on a flagpole with an Eagle on top in a Synagogue?

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein wrote that US and Israeli flags inside the synagogue (i.e. the worship room itself) were permitted; there was nothing idolatrous about them. He felt they were less-than-ideal, ...
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Kohain First Aliya a Requirement?

Well, let's hear it directly from the Talmud: Mishnah: The following rules were laid down in the interests of peace: A kohen is called up first to read the Torah, and after him a Levite, and then a ...
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