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  • The seaport town of Siphae, in the bay of Crisae, in the Thespian territory, was to be betrayed to them by one party; Chaeronea (a dependency of what was formerly called the Minyan, now the Boeotian, Orchomenus) to be put into their hands by another from that town, whose exiles were very active in the business, hiring men in Peloponnese.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

  • The seaport town of Siphae, in the bay of Crisae, in the Thespian territory, was to be betrayed to them by one party; Chaeronea (a dependency of what was formerly called the Minyan, now the Boeotian, Orchomenus) to be put into their hands by another from that town, whose exiles were very active in the business, hiring men in Peloponnese.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War 455? BC-395 BC Thucydides 1866

  • 3 The seaport city of Siphae, on the bay of Crisae in the territory of Thespiae, was to be betrayed to them by one party; and Chaeronea a dependency of what was formerly called the Minyan, but now the Boeotian, Orchomenus was to be put into their hands by another from that city, whose exiles were very active in the business, hiring men in the Peloponnesus.

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

  • 3 The seaport city of Siphae, on the bay of Crisae in the territory of Thespiae, was to be betrayed to them by one party; and Chaeronea a dependency of what was formerly called the Minyan, but now the Boeotian, Orchomenus was to be put into their hands by another from that city, whose exiles were very active in the business, hiring men in the Peloponnesus.

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

  • Henry said that Ruth felt that the kind of dialogue at the Minyan was the key to her understanding of Judaism.

    We Remember - Ruth Schachter Morgenthau, 1929 - 2006 2010

  • Date uncertain, but in Boeotia evidence that it ended before rise of 'Minyan' ware.

    How to Observe in Archaeology Various

  • We get a little of Heeb magazine, a bit of Jewish punk – but there is Elie Kaunfer, golden boy of traditional, egalitarian communities like Hadar and DC Minyan.

    Hey CNN! I’m a “New Jew” too! « The Blog at 16th and Q 2009

  • We get a little of Heeb magazine, a bit of Jewish punk – but there is Elie Kaunfer, golden boy of traditional, egalitarian communities like Hadar and DC Minyan.

    2009 October « The Blog at 16th and Q 2009

  • Having never attended a morning Minyan so you can imagine the shock of a secular kid from San Francisco for the first time to walk into a room in which the men and women were separated, and the men were wrapping leather boxes and straps around their arms.

    Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: High Holidays and the Gifts One Generation Gives The Next Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson 2011

  • We get a little of Heeb magazine, a bit of Jewish punk – but there is Elie Kaunfer, golden boy of traditional, egalitarian communities like Hadar and DC Minyan.

    2009 October 30 « The Blog at 16th and Q 2009

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