Feliz Ano Novo!

Amos Oz ע״ה

Yitz Greenberg

Conversation with Rabbi Irving Greenberg (2011)

Sukkot

"How essential are Sukkot’s rituals?", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Moisés

The "Sister Hagadah", Spain (1325-1374)

Scenes from the Life of Moses, f. 12.v and f. 13

Walter Kaufmann

"Kierkegaard & the Crisis of Religion" (1960's)

Israel

A mother and her child, location unknown (1945)

Vida

Wild pink pigeon

Natal

"Let it Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!", Dean Martin

Simcha Rotem ע״ה

Simcha Rotem, last surviving fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, died in Jerusalem Saturday at the age of 94

Masada

"Hazor"

Sentido

"Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski on Purpose"

Rembrandt

Rembrandt’s etching of David

Zebulon Simentov

The last Jew in Afghanistan

What has been, has been.

Pesachim 108a
 

Vida

Turtle dove

Issachar Ber Ryback

"Synagogue in Pianov Sokolski"

Yitz Greenberg

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 (2/2)

"God, Human Responsibility and the Future of the Covenant" (2013)

Israel

Maabara (1950)

Camille Pissarro

"Orchard in Bloom, Louveciennes" (1872)

Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt; how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were enfeebled in thy rear, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God. 

Deuteronomy 25: 17-18

Victor David Brenner

If you look very carefully at a penny, you’ll notice something you’ve probably never seen before: initials pressed into the dark underline of Lincoln’s bicep.

 Those initials stand for Victor David Brenner—the Jewish-American engraver, medalist, and designer of the Lincoln cent.

Vida

Bison in the snow

Liberdade

"Judaism and Human Freedom", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Séforis

At Zippori pool where Judah Hanasi may have bathed, a rare tiny pagan bull found (3rd century CE)

Relatives of Amichai and Shira Ish-Ran attend the funeral of their baby, who was born prematurely after his mother 
was wounded in a terror attack outside the West Bank settlement of Ofra, at Mount of Olives ceremony in Jerusalem on December 12, 2018

Oneg Shabbat

"Time Capsules under the Rubble: The Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto", Samuel Kassow

 

The first 'Oneg Shabbat' archive cache is recovered from the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland (September 1946)

Martírio

 

"Martyrdom: The Intersection of Jewish Law and Theology", Chaim Saiman

Vida

Etruscan shrew

Yoram Hazony

"God, Nationalism, and Conservatism: A Jewish View"

Menachem Begin

Picture from the arrest of Menachem Begin by the NKVD (September 1940)

"The Maccabees", Wojciech Stattler (1842)

Nieuwenhuys Hanukiah (1751)

"The Light of Judaism", Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

"Bohemian Chanukah" (a Queen adaptation), Six13

"Hanukkah - The Triumph of Monotheism", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Feliz Hanukkah!