Vida

Superb starlings (Lamprotornis superbus) in the Amboseli national park, Kenya

"Cheder", Irving Amen (1958)

J. D. Salinger

"Salinger", Trailer

Menachem Begin

“Mr Prime Minister”, Daniel Gordis 

Torah Crown (19th-20th century)

Mahler

Quartet for Piano and Strings in A minor - Allegro,

Borodin String Quartet

David

"King David: Public and Private Selves", Rabbi David Wolpe

Vida

 

Loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) are released into the sea after being treated in Mugla, Turkey

Anne Applebaum

On Autocracy’s Seductive Lure

Stanley Kubrick

"Filmworker"- Trailer

Sydney

The Great Synagogue of Sydney

Salmos

Tehilim, Shai Held 

Emirados Árabes Unidos

UAE

וְכִֽי־יִהְיֶ֣ה בְאִ֗ישׁ חֵ֛טְא מִשְׁפַּט־מָ֖וֶת וְהוּמָ֑ת וְתָלִ֥יתָ אֹת֖וֹ עַל־עֵֽץ

If a man is guilty of a capital offense and is put to death, and you impale him on a stake, 

לֹא־תָלִ֨ין נִבְלָת֜וֹ עַל־הָעֵ֗ץ כִּֽי־קָב֤וֹר תִּקְבְּרֶ֙נּוּ֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא כִּֽי־קִלְלַ֥ת אֱלֹהִ֖ים תָּל֑וּי וְלֹ֤א תְטַמֵּא֙ אֶת־אַדְמָ֣תְךָ֔ אֲשֶׁר֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ נֹתֵ֥ן לְךָ֖ נַחֲלָֽה

you must not let his corpse remain on the stake overnight, but must bury him the same day. For an impaled body is an affront to God: you shall not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess. 

Deuteronomy 21:22-23

Vida

Swifts over Iguazu Falls

HaTikvah

"Hatikva at Bergen Belsen" (1945)

Sexo

"Elements of a Jewish Sexual Ethic", Rabbi Mark Gottlieb

Paris

Le Centre Européen du Judaïsme

Moshe Halbertal

"On the Moral Needs of the World and How We Can Meet Them"

Garry Kasparov

"Garry Kasparov: Chess, Deep Blue, AI, and Putin"

 

Alan Lew

Rabbi Lew comparing Judaism and Budhism (2008)

Vida

Newly hatched loggerhead sea turtles

Jerusalém

Old City

Polónia

"Why Polish-Jewish History Matters" with Antony Polonsky & Marcin Wodzinski

Antissemitismo

Bari Weiss, Jonathan Weisman, Steven Zipperstein (2018)

Rabbi Yocḥanan said: From the day that the Temple was destroyed, prophecy was taken from the Prophets and given to fools and children.

Baba Batra 12b
 

Bem

"Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?", Rabbi David Wolpe

Jonathan Sacks

"Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times"

Bíblia

 

A Jewish manuscript (13th-15th century) smuggled into Israel from Damascus in a Mossad spy operation in the early 1990s

Vida

Avivah Zornberg

"Lech Lecha – A Journey to the Self"

Beirute

View of Beirut (circa 1860)

Shalmaneser III

 

Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, Nimrud, Iraq (858–824 BCE)

Mossad

Halakhah

"Can the Halakhah Suspend One's Emotions? 

Rabbi Soloveitchik, Rashi, and Maimonides on the Laws of Mourning", Lawrence J. Kaplan (2011)

Jehu

 

Part of the gift-bearing delegation of King Jehu, Black Obelisk (841-840 BCE)

Vida

 

An Australian pelican tries to find space on a street light pole on Botany Bay, Sydney

Nilo

Safed

"Synagogue in Safed", Nahum Gutmann (1957)

Mizrahim

Mizrahi Jews Singing in Synagogue, Israel

הַעִידֹ֨תִי בָכֶ֣ם הַיּוֹם֮ אֶת־הַשָּׁמַ֣יִם וְאֶת־הָאָרֶץ֒ הַחַיִּ֤ים וְהַמָּ֙וֶת֙ נָתַ֣תִּי לְפָנֶ֔יךָ הַבְּרָכָ֖ה וְהַקְּלָלָ֑ה וּבָֽחַרְתָּ֙ בַּֽחַיִּ֔ים לְמַ֥עַן תִּחְיֶ֖ה אַתָּ֥ה וְזַרְעֶֽךָ

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day: I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life—if you and your offspring would live— 

לְאַֽהֲבָה֙ אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ לִשְׁמֹ֥עַ בְּקֹל֖וֹ וּלְדָבְקָה־ב֑וֹ כִּ֣י ה֤וּא חַיֶּ֙יךָ֙ וְאֹ֣רֶךְ יָמֶ֔יךָ לָשֶׁ֣בֶת עַל־הָאֲדָמָ֗ה אֲשֶׁר֩ נִשְׁבַּ֨ע יְהוָ֧ה לַאֲבֹתֶ֛יךָ לְאַבְרָהָ֛ם לְיִצְחָ֥ק וּֽלְיַעֲקֹ֖ב לָתֵ֥ת לָהֶֽם

by loving the LORD your God, heeding His commands, and holding fast to Him. For thereby you shall have life and shall long endure upon the soil that the LORD swore to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them. 

Deuteronomy 30:19-20

Jehu

Depiction of Jehu King of Israel giving tribute to King Shalmaneser III of Assyria, 

on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III from Nimrud (circa 827 BC) in the British Museum

Israel

Herzog v. Toynbee Debate on Israel (1961)

Vida

A juvenile tricoloured heron stares at visitors to Lake Eola Park in downtown Orlando, Florida

Adin Steinsaltz זצ״ל

Hiroshima

Atomic bomb mushroom cloud over Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)

Daniel Boyarin

"Radical Talmud": Professor Daniel Boyarin interviewed by Shmuly Yanklowitz

Chesed

In our Commentary on Pirkei Avot (5:7) we have explained the expression chessed as denoting excess. It is especially used of extraordinary kindness. Loving-kindness is practised in two ways: first, we show kindness to those who have no claim whatever upon us; secondly, we are kind to those to whom it is due, in a greater measure than is due to them … The very act of creation is an act of God's loving-kindness: “I have said, ‘The universe is built in loving-kindness’” (Ps. 89:3)

Maimonides, "The Guide for the Perplexed", III:53

Egipto

Frog Amulet, Carnelian (1540-1296 BCE)

In Ancient Egypt the frog was a symbol of mortal life and fertility, Heqet being the goddess of child-birth

Israel

Benny Morris on the 1948 Arab Israeli War

Uzbequistão

The Ashkenazi Synagogue of Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Vida

Havelland, Germany. A yellow wagtail sings on a branch in the Havel floodplain. 

The species likes to stay on fields or wet meadows near herds of cattle, hence its name

גָּדַ֤ר דְּרָכַי֙ בְּגָזִ֔ית נְתִיבֹתַ֖י עִוָּֽה

He has walled in my ways with hewn blocks, He has made my paths a maze. 

Lamentations 3:9

Tisha B'Av

"A message for Tisha B'Av during the coronavirus pandemic", Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Epidemia

"Epidemics, Disease and Plagues in Jewish History & Memory",

a Conversation between Joshua Teplitsky and Magda Teter 

Yiddish

"Arum Dem Fayer", Shpielberg

David Wolpe

"Coronaspection" - Interview with Rabbi David Wolpe