Sionismo

"Theodor Herzl: The Birth of Political Zionism" 
Ep. 1: "The Challenge of Establishing a Jewish State", Daniel Polisar

Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

"Jewish Conservatism Among the Almost Chosen People"

Purim

Israel (1955)

Pérsia

The Tomb of Esther and Mordechai in Hamadan, Iran

Israel

 

Salt stalagtites hanging from the ceiling in the Malcham Cave, the longest salt cave in the world

Vida

 

A swarm of painted lady butterflies land on a Carolina cherry tree as they migrate north from Mexico through Encinitas, California

David Gelernter

"America-Lite: How Imperial AcademiaDismantled Our Culture (and Ushered In the Obamacrats)" (2013)

Ahasuerus

"King Ahasuerus condemning Haman", Arent de Gelder (1680)

Masada

"Ner Tamid"

Purim

 

Ultra-Orthodox Jews wear costumes during the Jewish festival of Purim, in Bnei Brak

Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Winner of the 2018 Canterbury Medal

And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and did obeisance to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. 
But Mordecai did not bow down or do obeisance. 

Esther 3:2 

Vida

A sparrow at a residence in Bangalore, India

Mordecai

 "Haman and Mordecai", Paul Alexander Leroy (1884)

"Monrovia, Indiana" de Frederick Wiseman

Trailer

Christine Hayes

"We’re no Angels"

Megillah

Scroll of Esther, Morocco (18th century)

"Sunset" de László Nemes

Trailer 

Masada

"Kodashim"

Mal

"Jewish Philosophy and the Problem of Evil", Steven Nadler

Vida

 

Scientists have found a treasure trove of fossils that date back more than half a billion years 

on the banks of the Danshui river in Hubei province, China

Purim

 

The earliest depiction of people wearing costumes on Purim, from Sefer Zemanim (the Book of Holidays), in Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, Northern Italy, (ca. 1470)

Rembrandt

Self-portrait (1629)

Matti Friedman

Matti Friedman in conversation with Phillip Gourevitch about his book "Pumpkinflowers" (2016)

Rugelach

"Joan Nathan Makes Rugelach"

"Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People" de Oren Rudavsky

Trailer

We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of tzedakah than any other positive commandment because tzedakah is the sign of the righteous person, a descendant of Abraham our father, as it is said, “For I know him, that he will command his children . . . to do tzedakah” . . . If someone is cruel and does not show mercy, there are sufficient grounds to suspect his lineage, since cruelty is found only among the other nations . . . Whoever refuses to give charity is called Belial, the same term which is applied to idol worshippers.

Maimonides, "Laws of Gifts to the Poor", 10:1-3
  

Deborah Lipstadt

 

"Bari Weiss and Deborah Lipstadt discuss the rise of antisemitism at home and abroad"

Vida

Sea lions on Robinson Crusoe island off the coast of Chile

Christine Hayes

 "The 'Truth' About Torah"

No man can see Me and live.

Exodus 33:30

Woody Allen

Final Scene from "Annie Hall" (1977)

Robert Sapolsky

"Are Humans just another Primate?"

Purim

"The Banquet of Ahasuerus", Aert de Gelder (1680s)

David Gelernter

"David Gelernter on American culture, Computer science, and Art"

Vida

A pair of stilts look out over a lake at Westgate Park, near Melbourne, that has turned pink

The phenomenon is caused by green algae reacting to high levels of salt and hot weather

Melila Hellner Eshed

"Derech Eretz and the Charismatic Leader"

Rembrandt

"Self Portrait" (1652)

David Hartman

"Israel is the Most Pluralistic Country" (1987)

Bíblia

"The Bible's Many Voices", Michael Carasik 

"Synagogue", Nathan Altman (1910s)

Purim

"Purim - The Holiday of Jewish Solidarity", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Vida

 

An endangered kea on the Dart Glacier in New Zealand. The world’s only alpine parrot is known for its curiosity

Chaïm Soutine

"Brace of Pheasants" (ca. 1926)

Nova Iorque

"Jewish New York", with Deborah Dash Moore and Jeffrey Gurock ("L'Chayim")

Indonésia

Synagogue in Manado, Indonesia

Abraham J. Heschel

 "Abraham Heschel et le Concile Vatican II", Edward K. Kaplan

Lodz Ghetto

A Man who Saved the Torah from the Rubble of the Synagogue on Wolborska Street, photo by Henryk Ross (1940)

Eye for eye,
tooth for tooth,
arm for arm,
leg for leg,
burn for burn,
injury for injury,
wound for wound.

Exodus 21:24-25

Vida

Futuro

"The Jewish Future", Rabbi Jonathan Sacks with Tal Keinan

Portrait of Rembrandt as a young man (1635)

Joe Dassin

"L'été Indien" (1975)

When I lived in London, I would visit the National Gallery, and the paintings that I loved the most were those of Rembrandt. In my opinion Rembrandt was a saint. When I first saw Rembrandt’s paintings, they reminded me of the rabbinic statement about the creation of light. When God created the light [on the first day], it was so strong and luminous that it was possible to see from one end of the world to the other. And God feared that the wicked would make use of it. What did He do? He secreted it for the righteous in the world to come. But from time to time there are great men whom God blesses with a vision of that hidden light. I believe that Rembrandt was one of them, and the light in his paintings is that light which God created on Genesis day.

Rabbi Abraham ha-Cohen Kook, "Jewish Chronicle", September 9, 1935

 

Joseph Pulitzer

Israel

"2019 Riesman Forum: Changes in Israel and the Rising American Jewish Generation", Daniel Gordis & Peter Beinart

Vida

 

An oriol extracts nectar from Modar flowers on the outskirts of Guwahati, India

Tekhelet

 

A set of Tzitzit, four tassels or "fringes" with blue threads produced from a Hexaplex trunculus based dye