Simcha (Hebrew: שִׂמְחָה śimḥāʰ; Hebrew pronunciation: [simˈχa], Yiddish pronunciation: [ˈsɪmχə]) is a Hebrew word that means "gladness", or "joy", and...
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Look up simcha in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Simcha is Hebrew for happiness or joy. Simcha may also refer to: A joyous event in Judaism, such as...
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Simcha Felder is an American politician from the state of New York and a member of the New York City Council. A Democrat, Felder represented the 44th district...
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Simcha Jacobovici (/ˈsɪmxə jəˈkoʊboʊvɪtʃ/; Hebrew: 'שמחה יעקובוביץ; born April 4, 1953) is a Canadian–Israeli journalist and documentary filmmaker. While...
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Simcha Bunim Bonhardt of Peshischa (Yiddish: שמחה בונם בונהרט פון פשיסכע, [ˈsɪmχə ˈbʊnɪm ˈbʊnhaʁt ˈfʊn ˈpʒɪsχə]; c. 1765 – 4 September 1827) also known...
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Simcha Dan Rothman (Hebrew: שִׂמְחָה דָּן רוֹטְמָן; born 13 August 1980) is an Israeli lawyer, right-wing activist, and politician. He is currently a member...
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Simcha Eichenstein (born August 6, 1983) is an American politician from New York. He is a member of the New York State Assembly. Simcha Eichenstein was...
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Rabbi Simcha Krauss (June 29, 1937 – January 20, 2022) was a rabbi associated with the liberal faction of Centrist Orthodoxy. He was known for his role...
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Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (also known as Meir Simcha Ha-Kohen, 1843 – 14 August 1926) was an Orthodox rabbi in the Russian Empire and Latvia. A leader of...
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Symcha Spira (redirect from Simcha Spira)
Symcha Spira (? – 1944), also known as Symche Spira, served as the head of the Krakow ghetto Jewish police during the Holocaust. According to survivors'...
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Simcha Paull Raphael (born 1951) is a Canadian psychotherapist, death awareness educator, and writer. He is the founder of the Da'at Institute for Death...
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Simcha Blass (Hebrew: שמחה בלאס; November 27, 1897 – July 18, 1982) was a Polish-Israeli engineer and inventor who developed the modern drip irrigation...
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22nd district. A Democrat, he won a May 2025 special election to succeed Simcha Felder, who resigned after being elected to the New York City Council. Sutton...
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Rabbi Simcha Binem Lieberman (Hebrew: שמחה בינעם לייברמן; 29 December 1926 – 28 June 2009) was an Israeli Talmudic scholar, lecturer at Jews' College,...
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Shalom (Simcha) Zorin (Hebrew: שלום זורין 1902–1974) was a Jewish Soviet partisan commander in Minsk. Many Jewish partisans in Byelorussia had their own...
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Sima Babovich (redirect from Simcha Babovitch)
Sima ben Salomon Babovich (Karaim: Сима Бабович - Sima Babovich, Russian: Сима Соломонович Бабович; 1790–1855) was the first[citation needed] Hakham of...
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Simcha Rotem (born Simcha (Szymon) Rathajzer, also known by his nom de guerre Kazik; 24 February 1924 – 22 December 2018) was a Polish-Israeli veteran...
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Simcha Bunim Alter (Hebrew: שמחה בונים אלתר; April 6, 1898 – July 8, 1992), also known as the Lev Simcha (לב שמחה), after the works he authored, was the...
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Rabbi Simcha Hagadol HaKohen Rappaport (Hebrew: שמחה הכהן ראפאפארט; b. 1650 - August 4, 1718) was a 17th-century Ukrainian rabbi and progenitor of the...
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Simcha Holtzberg (sometimes spelled Holzberg) (Hebrew: שמחה הולצברג; April 18, 1924 – February 13, 1994) was an Israeli activist and Holocaust survivor...
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Simcha Leiner (born 1989) is an American singer, composer and entertainer in the Contemporary Jewish religious music industry. Leiner started singing at...
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Shlomo Simcha Sufrin, better known as Shlomo Simcha (Hebrew: שלמה שמחה) is a UK-born Canadian Hasidic Jewish cantor and singer. Shlomo Simcha began his...
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Simcha Dinitz (Hebrew: שמחה דיניץ; 23 June 1929 - 23 September 2003) was an Israeli statesman and politician. He served as Director General of the Prime...
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Carroll (D) ▌Michael Novakhov (R) ▌Alec Brook-Krasny (R) ▌William Colton (D) ▌Simcha Eichenstein (D) ▌Lester Chang (R) ▌Emily Gallagher (D) ▌Marcela Mitaynes...
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Elazar Simcha Wasserman (Hebrew: אלעזר שמחה וסרמן; 1898 - October 29, 1992) was an Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva. Born in the Russian Empire, he was...
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Simcha of Rome was a Jewish scholar and rabbi who lived in Rome in the last quarter of the 13th century . He was given an open letter by the community...
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Simcha Avraham Sheps (April 18, 1908 – November 5, 1998) was an American Orthodox rabbi. He served as rosh yeshiva (dean) of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas. Simcha...
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Sidney Myer (redirect from Simcha Baevski Myer)
Sidney Myer (born Simcha Myer Baevski (Russian: Симха Майер Баевский, Belarusian: Сімха Маер Баеўскі); 8 February 1878 – 5 September 1934) was a Belarusian-born...
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Simhah Pinsker (redirect from Simcha Pinsker)
Simhah Pinsker (Hebrew: שמחה פינסקר, March 17, 1801 – October 29, 1864) was a Polish-Jewish scholar and archeologist born in Tarnopol, Habsburg East Galicia...
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Simha Babah (redirect from Simcha Babah)
lost his seat in the 1959 elections. He died in 1973 at the age of 71. Simcha Babah: Public Activities Knesset website Simha Babah on the Knesset website...
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