Nathan Glazer ע״ה

Vida

Nadav Lapid

"Policeman" ("HaShoter")

As Rabbi Shmuel bar Naḥman says that Rabbi Yonatan says: What is the meaning of that which is written in the passage describing the splitting of the Red Sea: “And the one came not near the other all the night” (Exodus 14:20)? At that time the ministering angels desired to recite a song before the Holy One, Blessed be He. The Holy One, Blessed be He, said to them: My handiwork, i.e., the Egyptians, are drowning in the sea, and you are reciting a song before Me? Apparently, God is not gladdened by the downfall of the wicked.

Sanhedrin, 39b
 

Tu Bishvat

Chicago

Saul Bellow on Chicago

Charles de Gaulle

(Yale)

Meir Banai

"גשם"

Vida

 

For 10 years, Romeo, the last known Sehuencas water frog on the planet, led a solitary life in a conservation centre in Bolivia. 

Now scientists have found him a Juliet on an expedition into Bolivia’s cloud forest.

Joshua Berman

In conversation with Rabbi Daniel Korobkin

Templo

 "The Destruction and Sack of the Temple of Jerusalem", Nicolas Poussin (1626)

Israel

"Nation State Law" (L'Chayim)

Êxodo

"The Exodus from Egypt", Dr. James Hoffmeier (2012)

José

"Joseph Recognized by His Brothers", Léon Pierre Urbain Bourgeois (1863)

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land.

Exodus 14:21
 

Vida

A white desert flower in the Wadi Rum desert wilderness south of Amman, Jordan. 

The desert has been inhabited by many cultures, including the Nabateans who left paintings and writings on some of the rocks. Bedouins continue to live in the protected area 

Chaïm Soutine

"Side of Beef with a Calf's Head" (ca. 1923)

Kurt Weill

"Youkali - Tango Habanera", Ute Lemper

Capitão Barros Basto

Artur Carlos de Barros Basto

Jacob

"Joseph's Coat Brought to Jacob", Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari (c. 1640)

Tu Bishvat

"Tu Bishvat & The Crisis of Modern Identity", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Irão

Habib Elghanian

Vida

A 55 days baby Octopus

Meir Banai

 

"שער הרחמים"

Issachar Ber Ryback

"Tailors"

Elie Wiesel

"Why I Write" (2005)

Benoit Mandelbrot

França

"Vietnam and Algeria" (Yale)

Chabad

"The Rebbe: Marching Orders"

Vida

Ibex

I will pass through Egypt on that night, and I will kill every first-born in Egypt, man and animal. 
I will perform acts of judgment against all the gods of Egypt: I [alone] am God.” 

Exodus 12:12 
 

"Moses with the Burning Bush", Chagall (1966)

Alexander Korda

Ruth Wisse

"The Education of a Jewish Conservative"

"Ivanhoe" de Walter Scott

Jesus da Nazaré

 

"The Evolution of Jesus in Early Christianity", Bart D. Ehrman

Vida

 

An adult hare sits it out as ferocious winds whip up a spindrift on an exposed plateau in the Cairngorms mountains, Scotland

Robert Alter

The publication of Robert Alter’s "The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary" is a landmark achievement. 

Ten years in the making, it is the first single-author literary translation of the complete Hebrew Bible.

Paul Johnson

Benoit Mandelbrot

"Mandelbrot Set"

"Moses before the burning bush", Marc Chagall (1966)

Janusz Korczak

Avinu Malkeinu

Jan Peerce

Vida

Blackbucks run in a field near Bhetnoi village in Ganjam, India

Shoah

George Steiner

God reveals his name to Moses as “I am,” from the Hebrew root ה.ו.י, “being.”
The name YHWH, however, originates in Midian, and derives from the Arabic term for “love, desire, or passion.”  

Israel Knohl

(Here)

Amos Oz

"Israeli President Rivlin eulogizes Amos Oz"

Hanukkah

"Hanukkah and Rabbinic Authority", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Rabbi Louis Jacobs

Robert Alter

"The Place of the Hebrew Bible in Liberal Education"

Vida

 

In 1844, the last Great Auk, a relative of puffins and razorbills, was killed on an island off the coast of Iceland

I remember that when I was growing up I was a frightened and lonely boy.

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

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

(1/2)

 (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!