Avivah Zornberg

"Dispatches from the Wilderness" (Bamidbar)

Jeremy Corbyn

"Jeremy Corbyn and the Resurgence of European Anti-Semitism", Dore Gold 

Challah

(Photo: Benyamin Reich)

Moisés

"Moses Indignant at the Golden Calf", William Blake (1800)

Shel Silverstein

Lorde

"The Louvre"

Estudo

Jews study while taking shelter in an East End wine cellar, London (1940)

Vida

The rare desert lions of Namibia are rapidly facing extinction

Here is a male around the Kunene region of Namibia

"Operation Finale" de Chris Weitz

Trailer

Abraão

"The Meeting of Abraham and Melchisedek", P.P. Rubens (1621)

Jacob

"Study of Zurbarán’s Jacob and His Twelve Sons"

Salmos

"Introducing The Psalms Experience"

Panelists include scholar and Psalms translator Robert Alter, musicologist Neil W. Levin, 

and David Van Biema, Time magazine’s former chief religion writer

 

"Aneinu"

Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky

When you reap the harvest in your field and overlook a sheaf in the field, do not turn back to get it; it shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow – in order that YHWH your God may bless you in all your undertakings.

When you beat down the fruit of your olive trees, do not go over them again; that shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.
When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not pick it over again; that shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.

Deuteronomy 24, 19-21

Vida

American flamingos

Martha Nussbaum

"The Monarchy of Fear" (2018)

Ugarit

The ruins of Ugarit (Syria)

Torah

"There are four basic assumptions shared by all ancient biblical interpreters:

1. The belief that the Torah is a fundamentally cryptic text, so that when it says A it often really means B;
2. The assumption that the Torah is a perfect text, without any internal contradictions or even any unnecessary words;
3. The idea that, although the words of the Torah were uttered in the past and in a specific historical setting, those words are nonetheless directed to us today, teaching us what to do and think; and
4. The idea that the Torah is a divinely given text from start to finish—not just the parts that are explicitly labeled as divine speech, “And the Lord said to Moses…” and the like, but every single word.

All four of these assumptions might be described nowadays as counter-intuitive, in the sense that they are not what we generally assume about, for example, the laws of Hammurabi or the Legend of King Keret or other writings from the ancient Near East—and, more to the point, they’re not what modern scholars generally assume about the Pentateuch. But they are what people came to assume about the Torah, and ultimately this changed the meaning of the text as a whole. It also became a mark of the Torah’s specialness. The Torah was the Book, the profound, unitary, and eternally valid revelation of divine truth, and the fact that it was interpreted in these special ways only vouchsafed its unique standing."

James Kugel in "Not a Naive Reading: An Interview with Prof. James Kugel" (here)  

Moscas

Flies

Stefan Zweig

"Stefan Zweig" (1997)