Purim!

 

 

 

Haviv Rettig Gur

 

 

"The Gathering Storm"

 

Vida

 

 

 

A rare black leopard deep in the forest of India’s Tadoba-Andhari tiger reserve

 

Chevra Kadisha

 

 

 

"The Men's Chevra Kadisha: How we care for the deceased" 

 

וְשָׁפַ֗ט בֵּ֚ין עַמִּ֣ים רַבִּ֔ים וְהוֹכִ֛יחַ לְגוֹיִ֥ם עֲצֻמִ֖ים עַד־רָח֑וֹק וְכִתְּת֨וּ חַרְבֹתֵיהֶ֜ם לְאִתִּ֗ים וַחֲנִיתֹֽתֵיהֶם֙ לְמַזְמֵר֔וֹת לֹֽא־יִשְׂא֞וּ גּ֤וֹי אֶל־גּוֹי֙ חֶ֔רֶב וְלֹא־יִלְמְד֥וּן ע֖וֹד מִלְחָמָֽה

 

Thus [God] will judge among the many peoples,
And arbitrate for the multitude of nations,
However distant;
And they shall beat their swords into plowshares
And their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation shall not take up
Sword against nation;
They shall never again know war;

וְיָשְׁב֗וּ אִ֣ישׁ תַּ֧חַת גַּפְנ֛וֹ וְתַ֥חַת תְּאֵנָת֖וֹ וְאֵ֣ין מַחֲרִ֑יד כִּי־פִ֛י יְהֹוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת דִּבֵּֽר

 

But every family shall sit
Under its own vine and fig tree
With no one to disturb them.
For it was GOD of Hosts who spoke.

כִּ֚י כׇּל־הָ֣עַמִּ֔ים יֵלְכ֕וּ אִ֖ישׁ בְּשֵׁ֣ם אֱלֹהָ֑יו וַאֲנַ֗חְנוּ נֵלֵ֛ךְ בְּשֵׁם־יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ לְעוֹלָ֥ם וָעֶֽד

 

Though all the peoples walk
Each in the names of its gods,
We will walk
In the name of the ETERNAL our God
Forever and ever.

Micah 4:3-5

 

Antissemitismo

 

 

 

"Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism:", Rabbi David Wolpe 

 

Porto

 

 

"Discovering the truth about Porto's Jewish heritage"

 

Israel

 

 

 

"The Great Misinterpretation: How Palestinians view Israel", Haviv Rettig Gur

 

Navalny

 

 

"My Letters to Navalny: Soviet Refusenik Natan Sharansky"

 

Vida

 

 

Arctic fox

Righteous among the Nations

 

 

 

"In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust", Richard Hurowitz 

 

Ishay Ribo

 

 

 "Halev Sheli" ("הלב שלי")

Micah Goodman

 

 

"If Israel leaves the West Bank its existence is at stake"

Pogroms

 

 

 

"In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust", Jeffrey Veidlinger (2021)

 

Douglas Murray

 

 

"Why the West Won't Fight for Itself"

 

Morte

 

 

"Jewish Mourning Rituals: Caring for the Body"

 

Vida

 

 

 

An Amur leopard and her three cubs are seen in a camera trap image

Rangers from Suiyang Bureau of the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park found the image

 

Liberdade

 

 

"What It Means to Choose Freedom", Bari Weiss

 

Antissemitismo

 

 

 

 "The Mutating Virus: Understanding Antisemitism", Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (2016)

 

Páscoa

 

 

"The Food of Passover", Joan Nathan (2016)

 

Israel

 

 

 

"The Two-State Delusion & Israel at War", with Elliott Abrams & Jonathan Silve

 

 

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 יֱהֹוִ֑ה אִם־לֹ֠א בְּיָ֨ד חֲזָקָ֜ה וּבִזְר֧וֹעַ נְטוּיָ֛ה וּבְחֵמָ֥ה שְׁפוּכָ֖ה אֶמְל֥וֹךְ עֲלֵיכֶֽם

 

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

 

Ezekiel 20:32-33

 

 

 

"Hide No More", Sermon by Rabbi Nicole Guzik

 

Robert Badinter ז״ל

 

Vida

 

 

Striped hyena

 

Edmond Fleg

 

 

(circa 1930)

 

Jonathan Haidt

 

 

"The Great Rewiring"

 

Akiva

 

 

"Yesh Becha HaKol" ("יש בך הכל")

 

Eikha

 

 

 

"Uncovering Megillat Eikha (The Book of Lamentations): a Resonating Trauma", Rabbi Joshua Berman  

 

Naomi Levy

 

 

"Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the Soul" (2018)

 

Hamas

 

 

Hamas - in their own words since October 7th (MEMRI)

Vida

 

 

 

Cheerful frogs gather around frogspawn, some of the first of the season, at Buckfast Abbey, Devon, UK

Douglas Murray

 

 

"Special Briefing - October 7th War" 

 

4 meses

 

 

4 months after  

 

América

 

 

 

​"Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers who led the Way", Hasia Diner (2015)

Shmuel Feiner

 

 

"The Jews of Europe in 18th century and Haskalah"

 

 

At dawn I seek You, my rock and my fortress


My morning and evening prayers I lay before You


Before Your greatness I stand in fright


for Your eyes can see into the thoughts of my heart


What is this that the heart and tongue can


bring about, and what is the strength of my spirit within me?

Behold the singing of man will be pleasant to You, therefore

I thank You while the soul of God is within me

 

Solomon Ibn Gabirol 

 

Eylon Levy

 

 

Eylon Levy in conversation with Rav Goldwicht

Vida

 

 

A Himalayan monal in Shannan City, Tibet

 

UNRWA

 

 

 

An UNRWA school celebrating Nazis, Arafat and other terrorists (1982)

 

Tu Bishvat

 

 

יִשְׂמַ֕ח לֵ֖ב מְבַקְשֵׁ֥י יְהֹוָֽה

Let all who seek the LORD rejoice.

 

1 Chronicles 16:10

 

Hassidismo

 

 

 

 

"Language and Reality in Early Hasidism", Rabbi Ariel Evan Mayse (2020)

Douglas Murray

 

 

 

"Cowardice is Killing the West", The Winston Marshall Show

 

Memória

 

 

"Time's Echo" by Jeremy Eichler - Book Trailer

Vida

 

 

 

Black-headed ibis are silhouetted at sunset in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka

 

Zion

 

 

 

"Zion in the Diaspora: How Jews imagined they lived in Zion wherever they actually lived", David Kraemer

 

Cristo

 

 

 

"The Jewish Roots of Divine Christology", Daniel Boyarin

A Guerra do Yom Kippur

 

 

 

 "The Yom Kippur War and how it created the Modern Middle East", Uri Kaufman 

Hinde Ester Singer Kreytman

 

 

("Esther Singer Kreitman")

 

UK

 

 

 "Contemporary Antisemitism in the U.K.", Dave Rich

 

Israel

 

 

 

"The Making of Sadistic Terrorists", an Interview with Mordechai Kedar | The Caroline Glick Show

 

Vida

 

 

 

An Arctic fox braves the snowy blizzard in search of food 

in Hornstrandir nature reserve, northern Iceland

 

100 dias

 

 

Kfir Bibas

 

UN

 

 

 

"Put the UN on trial, not Israel at ICJ", Chief Rabbi of South Africa Warren Goldstein 

 

Israel

 

 

"Israel's Moment", Jeffrey Herf (2022)

 

 

The dead praise not the Lord.

Psalm 115:17 

 

Berlim

 

 

 

Albert Einstein wearing a kippah; on the night he and Manfred Lewandowski 

performed two pieces by Bach and Haendel at a charity concert in the New Synagogue in Berlin, January 29, 1930

 

Política

 

 

Yuval Levin on "The Great Debate" (2014)

 

Vida

 

 

A humpback whale in UK waters

 

 

Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish says: Anyone who becomes compassionate when he should be cruel will ultimately become cruel when he should be compassionate (...)

Kohelet Rabbah 7:16

IDF

 

 

"How the IDF prevents civilian casualties"

 

Feliz Ano Novo!

 

Susie Linfield

 

 

 

SAPIR Presents: Editor-in-Chief Bret Stephens and Susie Linfield

 

 

If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. 

Luke 14:26

 

Esquerda

 

 

 

"How the War exposed the Failures & Possibilities of the Jewish Left", Rabbi Shai Held

 

Vida

 

 

 

A majestic spoonbill shows off its plumage in Tampa Bay, Florida, US 

Israel

 

 

Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

 

Moisés

 

 

 

"Imagining Moses: Scenes of Liminality", Avivah Zornberg

 

América

 

 

 

 "The Wake-Up Call for American Jewry", Eric Cohen & Dan Senor

 

Kavanah

 

 

"Mishna Berachot", Moshe Halberthal (5/5)

Islamismo

 

 

 

"Dalia Ziada had to flee for her life from Egypt because she spoke the truth about Hamas"

 

Hanukkah

 

 

Rabbi David Wolpe

 

Vida

 

 

 

A fallow deer against a backdrop of snow-covered trees and roads in Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, UK 

 

Terrorismo

 

 

 

 "The Making of Sadistic Terrorists": An Interview with Mordechai Kedar | The Caroline Glick Show

 

Israel

 

 

"Does Israel Occupy the West Bank?", Eugene Kontorovich

 

 

Chag sameach!

Antissemitismo

 

 

 

"Semites, Anti-Semites, and Bernard Lewis: The Life and Afterlife of a Seminal Book", Martin Kramer

 

Harvard

 

 

 

"Elise Stefanik absolutely explodes at Harvard's President and calls for her resignation"

Magda Teter

 

 

 

 "Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism"

 

Vida

 

 

 

A multiple-exposure photo shows a cunning drongo bird using light 

from an urban petrol pump to catch termites during monsoon season 

 

Israel

 

Henry Kissinger ז״ל

 

Israel

 

 

"October 7th was decades in the making", Einat Wilf

 

Saul

 

 

 

"Character and Leadership: Rise and Fall of Saul", Micah Goodman (2018)

 

Douglas Murray

 

 

 "Israel, Immigration & Islam"

Torah

 

 

"Does it matter who wrote the Torah?", JJ Kimche

 

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks זצ״ל

 

Gila Sacks

 

Vida

 

 

A wolf spider with her babies

 

Israel

 

 

"Israel, Islam & the New Cold War", Niall Ferguson

 

 

So, in order to segregate souls God must not merely not foster but even injure.

Franz Rosenzweig

 

Antissemitismo

 

 

"What is Islamic Antisemitism?", Henry Abramson

 

N.Y.

 

 

 

"New Yorkers unite to support Jewish business owner after workers walk out" (Fox News)

Mishna

 

 

(1/3)

 

(2/3)

 

(3/3)

"Mishna Berachot", Moshe Halbertal

Gaza

 

Reports in Gaza: 

The two damned terrorists who were recorded kidnapping 85-year-old Yaffe Ader

 were eliminated in IDF strikes

 

Vida

 

 

 

Two leopards take a drink at the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana

 

 

The Gemara relates: When they took Rabbi Akiva out to be executed, it was time for the recitation of Shema. And they were raking his flesh with iron combs, and he was reciting Shema, thereby accepting upon himself the yoke of Heaven. His students said to him: Our teacher, even now, as you suffer, you recite Shema? He said to them: All my days I have been troubled by the verse: With all your soul, meaning: Even if God takes your soul. I said to myself: When will the opportunity be afforded me to fulfill this verse? Now that it has been afforded me, shall I not fulfill it? He prolonged his uttering of the word: One, until his soul left his body as he uttered his final word: One. A voice descended from heaven and said: Happy are you, Rabbi Akiva, that your soul left your body as you uttered: One.

   

Berakhot 61b:9

 

Douglas Murray

 

 

"This is About Survival"

 

Sukkot

 

 

 

A Jewish family celebrating Sukkot in Isfahan, Iran (late 1800's)

 

Israel

 

 

 

"The American Jew and the State of Israel", Rav Soloveitchik (1958)