Because in Germany you can offset charitable donations against tax?
(I've no idea if that was the case in the 1860s, though).
I seriously doubt that Germany in the 1860s (or, well, I guess it was Prussia then) gave tax breaks for contributions to Jewish community charities.
I can see someone somewhere keeping a list of this stuff, but I can't figure out how it would make it into a published book. And this had to be an expensive book to print -- just about every paragraph has one or two words in Hebrew, usually "May his memory be a blessing" after a mention of someone who had died, so they had to have a printing press and a printer who could deal with that. I can't read it well enough to figure out what the rest of the book is -- it's something like 18 volumes, so it can't just be a list of donations, but I can't figure out much beyond that.
It could be an archive of a group of charities, some people get inspired to publish the oddest things--even before e-publishing! It's like all the books that are publishes with the passenger lists of ships that landed in Colonial America.
If you think you have the most boring meeting, you're wrong. I do. Right now.
If you think you have the most boring meeting, you're wrong. I do. Right now.
Yeah, no. I don't buy it.
Yeah, no. I don't buy it.
Trade you. I'll give you the dial in information for next week. I will so verily verily win this one.
Charlie Sheen Quotes As New Yorker Cartoons
Who knew that cocaine and manic episodes so perfectly complemented dry, WASPy fine lined humor?
Well, I think we all suspected.
I feel like I might have seen this linked here before, but I'm going to go ahead and do it again if it was because it's pretty cool. A photoshoot of Olympic athletes demonstrating the diversity of even super-fit bodies
