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

Ezequiel

"The Vision of the Valley of the Dry Bones", Gustave Doré (1865)

Alain Finkielkraut

"JUIF?" Selon Alain Finkielkraut (2013)

Carl Burgos

(1940)

Roger Williams

Roger Williams statue by Franklin Simmons

Pittsburgh

"Jewish community still healing one year after mass shooting"

Menasseh ben Israel

Steven Nadler

Vida

A bearded tit stands on a reed near Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China

Veneza

Canton synagogue, Venice

Hannah Szenes

Budapest (1939)

Irão

"Despite tension between Iran and Israel, Iran’s Jewish minority feels at home" (PBS)

Helena Corrêa de Barros

"Suissa" (1948)

Simchat Torah

Synagogue in Mea Shearim in Jerusalem

Kafka

 "Is that Kafka? 99 Finds": An Evening with Reiner Stach 

Vida

A badger in Kidderminster, UK

Marc Weitzmann

"JUIF?" Selon Marc Weitzmann (2014)

אֶ֭בֶן מָאֲס֣וּ הַבּוֹנִ֑ים הָ֝יְתָ֗ה לְרֹ֣אשׁ פִּנָּֽה

The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. 

Psalm 118:22

 

Jonas

"Why are You Here? Truth, Comfort, and Religious Motivation", Dovid Bashevkin

Salgueiro

 Willow tree (  (ערבה

וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ אֶל־פַּרְעֹ֑ה כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה בְּנִ֥י בְכֹרִ֖י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל

Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the LORD: Israel is My first-born son.

Exodus 4:22

Helena Corrêa de Barros

Vida

An oak tree in Aggtelek national park near Jósvafő, Hungary

Harold Bloom ע״ה

Sucot

Libyan Jews sit in a sukkah in Tripoli (c. 1920s)

Cantor Moshe Oysher

"Kiddush"

Paul Mendes-Flohr

"What Constitutes Jewish Spiritual Renewal?"

Sucot

Yom Kippur

A-WA

 "Al Asad"

Vida

A frog sits on a rain-spattered lotus leaf in a pond in Lalitpur, Nepal

Jonathan Sacks

"An Unforgiving Age"

Now therefore write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the people of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be My witness against the people of Israel.

Deuteronomy 31:19
 

Milena Jesenská

Ernest Bloch

"Nigun" (Itzhak Perlman)