Jesus da Nazaré

"Jesus, the Law, and a "New" Covenant", Bart Ehrman (2016)

Eichmann

Deborah Lipstadt: The Adolf Eichmann Trial

Vida

A young jackdaw rests on a fence post in Altheim, western Germany

Hanukkah

"How to Light the Hanukkah Menorah"

Anita Diamant

(2018)

"Maoz Tzur"

Cantor Pierre Pinchik 

אַתָּה֙ תִּהְיֶ֣ה עַל־בֵּיתִ֔י וְעַל־פִּ֖יךָ יִשַּׁ֣ק כָּל־עַמִּ֑י רַ֥ק הַכִּסֵּ֖א אֶגְדַּ֥ל מִמֶּֽךָּ

You shall be in charge of my court, and by your command shall all my people be directed; only with respect to the throne shall I be superior to you.

Genesis 41:40

 

Tamar Elad-Appelbaum

"On the Threshold of a New Year" (2017)

Hanukkah

 

The 7-foot-tall candelabrum at a McDonald's has become a photo op in Manaus, Brazil

Vida

A Indian cabbage white butterfly flies near flower buds in Kathmandu, Nepal

Jesus da Nazaré

"Are the Gospels Historically Reliable?", Bart Ehrman debates Peter J Williams 

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

Franz Kafka

Hanukkah

Adam Sandler on Hanukkah - SNL (1994)

Hallel

Psalm 113 / Hallel from the Barcelona Haggadah (c. 1340)

S.Y. Agnon

"The Fiction of S.Y. Agnon, Noble Laureate", Alan Mintz (1)

Wadi Rum

Mountain in Wadi Rum, Jordan

Vida

Flamingos in Cakalburnu Lagoon on the Inciralti coast of Izmir, Turkey

"Go Down, Moses", Linda Tillery & Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell

כֹּ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה ק֣וֹל בְּרָמָ֤ה נִשְׁמָע֙ נְהִי֙ בְּכִ֣י תַמְרוּרִ֔ים רָחֵ֖ל מְבַכָּ֣ה עַל־בָּנֶ֑יהָ מֵאֲנָ֛ה לְהִנָּחֵ֥ם עַל־בָּנֶ֖יהָ כִּ֥י אֵינֶֽנּוּ

Thus said the LORD: A cry is heard in Ramah— Wailing, bitter weeping— Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted For her children, who are gone. 

Jeremiah, 31:15

 

Moisés

"Moses' Mother Jochebed and Sister Miriam", Aleksey Tyranov

Hanukkah

"Likhtelekh", Coro Hebraeico 

Mel Brooks

"Mel Brooks: Unwrapped": Trailer

Crise

"Crisis in Jewish Literature", Alan Mintz

Vida

A long-snouted seahorse in the Mare Piccolo, Taranto, Italy

The boom in seahorse poaching spells bust for the country’s coastal habitats

Finlândia

Helsinki Synagogue

Martin Buber

"Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent", Paul Mendes-Flohr

"Reconciliation of Jacob with Esau", Johann H. Schönfeld (c. 1640)

Tamar Elad Appelbaum

"Challenges Facing Israeli Identity" (2016)

Ídolos

 "Daniel and Cyrus before the Idol Bel", Rembrandt (1633)

Israel

"American Jews and Israel: can the Relationship be Saved?", 

Daniel Gordis and Thomas Friedman

Vida

A horned beetle in Quezon City, the Philippines

Nehemiah Nobel

וְהָֽעֹלָה֙ עַל־ר֣וּחֲכֶ֔ם הָי֖וֹ לֹ֣א תִֽהְיֶ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ אַתֶּ֣ם אֹמְרִ֗ים נִֽהְיֶ֤ה כַגּוֹיִם֙ כְּמִשְׁפְּח֣וֹת הָאֲרָצ֔וֹת לְשָׁרֵ֖ת עֵ֥ץ וָאָֽבֶן

And what you have in mind shall never come to pass—when you say, “We will be like the nations, like the families of the lands, worshiping wood and stone.” 

חַי־אָ֕נִי נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה אִם־לֹ֠א בְּיָ֨ד חֲזָקָ֜ה וּבִזְר֧וֹעַ נְטוּיָ֛ה וּבְחֵמָ֥ה שְׁפוּכָ֖ה אֶמְל֥וֹךְ עֲלֵיכֶֽם

As I live—declares the Lord GOD—I will reign over you with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with overflowing fury. 

Ezekiel 20:32-33
 

Hermann Cohen

(before 1906)

Kafka

וַיַּ֞רְא וְהִנֵּ֧ה בְאֵ֣ר בַּשָּׂדֶ֗ה וְהִנֵּה־שָׁ֞ם שְׁלֹשָׁ֤ה עֶדְרֵי־צֹאן֙ רֹבְצִ֣ים עָלֶ֔יהָ כִּ֚י מִן־הַבְּאֵ֣ר הַהִ֔וא יַשְׁק֖וּ הָעֲדָרִ֑ים וְהָאֶ֥בֶן גְּדֹלָ֖ה עַל־פִּ֥י הַבְּאֵֽר 

There before his eyes was a well in the open. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it, for the flocks were watered from that well. The stone on the mouth of the well was large. 

Genesis 29:2

 

Rússia

"Leaving Mother Russia", Safam

Vida

 

A lone deer grazes on a charred ridge in the aftermath of the Kincade fire near Healdsburg, California

Shoah

"How is Prayer Possible after the Holocaust", David Hartman (2008)

וְנָתַתִּ֤י לָכֶם֙ לֵ֣ב חָדָ֔שׁ וְר֥וּחַ חֲדָשָׁ֖ה אֶתֵּ֣ן בְּקִרְבְּכֶ֑ם וַהֲסִ֨רֹתִ֜י אֶת־לֵ֤ב הָאֶ֙בֶן֙ מִבְּשַׂרְכֶ֔ם וְנָתַתִּ֥י לָכֶ֖ם לֵ֥ב בָּשָֽׂר

And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit into you: I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh; 

וְאֶת־רוּחִ֖י אֶתֵּ֣ן בְּקִרְבְּכֶ֑ם וְעָשִׂ֗יתִי אֵ֤ת אֲשֶׁר־בְּחֻקַּי֙ תֵּלֵ֔כוּ וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֥י תִּשְׁמְר֖וּ וַעֲשִׂיתֶֽם

and I will put My spirit into you. Thus I will cause you to follow My laws and faithfully to observe My rules. 

Ezekiel 36: 26-27

Lucy Dawidowicz

(1988)

"Wonder Woman 1984", Trailer (2020)

Vilnius

“The Old Jewish Cemetery of Vilna“

וְהָיְתָ֥ה לָכֶ֖ם לְחֻקַּ֣ת עוֹלָ֑ם בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַ֠שְּׁבִיעִי בֶּֽעָשׂ֨וֹר לַחֹ֜דֶשׁ תְּעַנּ֣וּ אֶת־נַפְשֹֽׁתֵיכֶ֗ם וְכָל־מְלָאכָה֙ לֹ֣א תַעֲשׂ֔וּ הָֽאֶזְרָ֔ח וְהַגֵּ֖ר הַגָּ֥ר בְּתוֹכְכֶֽם

And this shall be to you a law for all time: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall practice self-denial; and you shall do no manner of work, neither the citizen nor the alien who resides among you. 

Leviticus 16:29

Vida

Two mature Chrysaora fuscescens medusae

Páscoa

 

The Passover Seder of the Portuguese (Sephardic) Jews by Picart, in "The Monumental Ceremonies et 

Coutumes Religieuses de Tous les Peuples du Monde", Bernard Picart and Jean Frederic Bernard (1723)

Chabad

Rare Crown Heights Documentary on Chabad (1994)

Edith Eger

Edith Eva Eger about how to triumph in challenging times (2015)

"Marriage Story" de Noah Baumbach

Trailer

Raquel

Rachel begs God for children, Michelangelo, Rome

Israel

"International Law Issues in the Israeli/ Palestinian Conflict", Eugene Kontorovich (2016)

Vida

A fox in the Sarıkamış district of Kars province, Turkey

Riqueza

"Affluence vs. Poverty", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Aarão

Aaron's Tomb near Petra, Jordan

Serge Gainsbourg

"Ce mortel ennui" (1965)

Maná

"Manna in the Desert", Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (c. 1740)

Jonathan Sacks

Conversations with John Anderson

Vilnius

Jewish Cemetery (1922)

Vida

Gelada monkeys watch as the sun sets over the Simien Mountains, Ethiopia

Rebeca

"The Veiled Rebecca", Giovanni Maria Benzoni (1876)

Yuval Levin

"The Invisible Crisis" (2019)

Mordechai Kedar

(1/2)

(2/2)

"L'Chayim"

Labour

"What Role Does Antisemitism Play in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party?", Dave Rich 

Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky

Abdullah II

King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein of Jordan Discusses Middle East Issues (26th November 2019)

Vida

 

A lineated barbet (right) clashes with a jungle myna in the Morigaon district of Assam, India

Sigd

Ethiopian Jewish leaders 'Kessim' pray during the Sigd holiday on a hill overlooking Jerusalem (October 31, 2013)

Christine Hayes

"Identities in Crisis: Re-Imagining The Jewish Community"

Irving Berlin

"Blue Skies", Frank Sinatra

Jonas

"The End of Jonah", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Rebeca

"Rebecca et Eliézer", Alexandre Cabanel (1883)

Norman Podhoretz

"Is America Exceptional?" (2012)

Vida

Two grasshoppers mating at night in Spain. 

Scientists say light pollution is a significant but often overlooked driver of the rapid decline of insect populations

Israel

"Be Strong and of Good Courage", David Makovsky and Dennis Ross

Irving Berlin

"Puttin' On The Ritz", Lew Conrad

"Golda" de Sagi Bornstein e Udi Nir

Trailer

A-WA

"VeDavid Yafe Einayim"  (ודוד יפה עיניים)

Yoram Hazony

 "On Nationalism and Scripture"

 

“(...) the Old Testament – well, that is something quite different: every respect for the Old Testament! I find in it great men, heroic landscape and something of utmost rarity on earth, the incomparable naivety of the strong heart; even more, I find a people.”

"The Genealogy of Morality", Friedrich Nietzsche, CUP, p.107

Vida

 

A kookaburra perches on a charred tree after a bushfire in Wallabi Point, New South Wales, Australia

John Adams

Gilbert Stuart (1800-1815)

Daniel Gordis

AIPAC (2019)

Israel

"A Pilgrimage through Palestine" (1920's)

Raphael Chaim Isaac Carregal

Jonathan Sacks

"Is our most famous prayer a prayer?" | Talmud Talks

Leonard Cohen

"Leonard Cohen on Preparing for Death" | The New Yorker

Vida

 

Colourful autumn foliage adorns Mount Nebiyan, in Ondokuz Mayıs district, Samsun, Turkey

לפיכך נברא אדם יחידי ללמדך שכל המאבד נפש אחת מישראל מעלה עליו הכתוב כאילו איבד עולם מלא וכל המקיים נפש אחת מישראל מעלה עליו הכתוב כאילו קיים עולם מלא

The court tells the witnesses: Therefore, Adam the first man was created alone, to teach you that with regard to anyone who destroys one soul from the Jewish people, i.e., kills one Jew, the verse ascribes him blame as if he destroyed an entire world, as Adam was one person, from whom the population of an entire world came forth. And conversely, anyone who sustains one soul from the Jewish people, the verse ascribes him credit as if he sustained an entire world.

Sanhedrin 37a
 

Joseph Telushkin

(L'Chayim)

Man is a dialectical being; an inner schism runs through his personality at every level. This schism is not due to man's revolt against his Maker, as Christian theology has preached since the days of Augustine. Unlike this view, according to which it was man who, by his sinful rebellion against his Maker, precipitated the split in human nature, the Judaic view posits that the schism is willed by God as the source of man's greatness and his election as a singular charismatic being. Man is a great and creative being because he is torn by conflict and is always in a state of ontological tenseness and perplexity. The fact that the creative gesture is associated with agony is a result of this contradiction, which pervades the whole personality of man.

"Majesty and Humility", Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1973)

Abdullah I bin Al-Hussein

(Between 1939 and 1945)

Emma Lazarus

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

"Lonely Man of Faith": Trailer

Ismael

"Abraham sends away Hagar and Ishmael", Josef Danhauser (1836)

Ernest Bloch

"Helvetia" (1929)

Vida

Bohemian waxwings eating rowan berries in the Kostroma region of Russia

Marraquexe

Al Azama synagogue in Marrakech

Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht, Berlim (9–10 November 1938)

Alexandre II da Rússia

(1878-1881)

Emil Fackenheim

"Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim Conference" (Toronto, 2015)

América

Puck Cartoon "The Modern Moses" (1881)

Weimar

"The Weimar Republic: Germany's First Democracy", Richard Evans

וַיְהִ֥י דְבַר־יְהוָ֖ה אֵלַ֥י לֵאמֹֽר

The word of the LORD came to me:

בְּטֶ֨רֶם אצורך [אֶצָּרְךָ֤] בַבֶּ֙טֶן֙ יְדַעְתִּ֔יךָ וּבְטֶ֛רֶם תֵּצֵ֥א מֵרֶ֖חֶם הִקְדַּשְׁתִּ֑יךָ נָבִ֥יא לַגּוֹיִ֖ם נְתַתִּֽיךָ

Before I created you in the womb, I selected you; Before you were born, I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet concerning the nations. 

Jeremiah 1:4-5

Vida

 

A nuthatch foraging on the 1,000-year-old Allerton oak in Calderstones park, Liverpool

A-WA

"Bayti Fi Rasi"

Marceline Loridans-Ivens

"JUIF?" Selon Marceline Loridans-Ivens (2013)

Mordecai Manuel Noah

 "Discourse on the Restoration of the Jews" (1844)

Shabbatai Zvi

"The Afterlives of Shabbatai Zvi: A Lecture on the Memory of Heresy", David Biale

Israel

Israel, as seen from space (Jessica Meir/ NASA)

Ezra Stiles

"Rev. Ezra Stiles", Samuel King (1771)

Vida

Two sleeping foxes cuddled up together at a wildlife park in Shanghai, China

Josy Eisenberg

(1/2)

(2/2)

«La Traversée du Désert» (2011) 

לִמְנ֣וֹת יָ֭מֵינוּ כֵּ֣ן הוֹדַ֑ע וְ֝נָבִ֗א לְבַ֣ב חָכְמָֽה

Teach us to count our days rightly, that we may obtain a wise heart. 

Psalm 90:12

Ernest Bloch

"Suite Hébraïque" (1951)

וְאֵ֗לֶּה שְׁמוֹת֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הַבָּאִ֖ים מִצְרָ֑יְמָה אֵ֣ת יַעֲקֹ֔ב אִ֥ישׁ וּבֵית֖וֹ בָּֽאוּ

These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each coming with his household

רְאוּבֵ֣ן שִׁמְע֔וֹן לֵוִ֖י וִיהוּדָֽה

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah

יִשָּׂשכָ֥ר זְבוּלֻ֖ן וּבְנְיָמִֽן

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin

דָּ֥ן וְנַפְתָּלִ֖י גָּ֥ד וְאָשֵֽׁר

Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

וַֽיְהִ֗י כָּל־נֶ֛פֶשׁ יֹצְאֵ֥י יֶֽרֶךְ־יַעֲקֹ֖ב שִׁבְעִ֣ים נָ֑פֶשׁ וְיוֹסֵ֖ף הָיָ֥ה בְמִצְרָֽיִם

The total number of persons that were of Jacob’s issue came to seventy, Joseph being already in Egypt. 

Exodus 1:1-5
 

Robert Alter

Robert Alter on "Prophecy and Anti-Prophecy in the Poetry of Bialik" (2016)

Dovid Bashevkin

"The Torment of Time: A Jewish Perspective on Time & Pain" (2014)
 

Vida

 

A silverback mountain gorilla named Segasira looks up as he lies under a tree in the Volcanoes national park, Rwanda