Balthus

"The Cat of La Méditerranée", Balthus (1949)

Hanukkah

"Likhtelekh", Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell

Arthur Szyk

L'Chayim: "The Art of Arthur Szyk"

América

"Jewish Ideas and the American Founders: The Yiddish Letter and the Declaration", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Resistência

"Resistance in France" (Yale)

Vida

 

Crowds of white swans on the Swan Lake in Sanmenxia, in China’s Henan province

 

Contemporary etching of the Hep-Hep Riot”in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, by Johann Voltz (1819)

Paris

"Grande Synagogue", Paris

Primeiro Templo

 

A First Temple period weight measure called a ‘beka’ was unearthed in a City of David excavation 

in the Davidson Archaeological Park and discovered in the wet sifting project in Jerusalem’s Tsurim Valley

"Esau Meeting Jacob", Dalziel Brothers (1881)

Philip Roth

"Philip Roth at 70", with David Remnick (2003)

Gershom Mendes Seixas

 (c. 1784)

Rosh Hashanah

“Is Rosh Hashanah about self-reflection?“, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Vida

Penguin jumping on to the ice in Antarctica

Raquel

"The Death of Rachel", Gustav Metz (1847)

Woody Allen

"Annie Hall" - The Opening Scene (1977)

Babel

 

Mosaic depicting the building of the Tower of Babel, Huqoq synagogue (5th century)

 

Gershom Scholem

Gershom Scholem sitting in Sukka learning Zohar (1925)

1948

Benny Morris (2018)

Vichy

"The Dark Years: Vichy France" (Yale)

Vida

Highland Fold Cat

Moses Mendelssohn

"Mendelssohn, Kant, and Freedom of Religion", Paul Guyer

Varsóvia

Wife of Nat Gutman, Warsaw, Roman Vishniac (1938)

Jonah Goldberg

"Suicide of the West"

"Einstein at Work", Roman Vishniac (1942) 

 

Stan Lee

 

The first issue of The X-Men, with a cover by Jack Kirby and Sol Brodsky (September 1963)

Vida

Flamingos on the muddy banks of Lake Bogoria, Kenya

"Die Stadt ohne Juden" de Hans K. Breslauer

"The City without Jews" - Trailer (1924)

Kristallnacht

A photo taken on 10 November 1938 showing Jewish shops on Potsdamer Strasse damaged during Kristallnacht is displayed in the same location 80 years on (Berlin)

Magia

Angel writing’ and how to get rid of scorpions from a book of spells (included in a mysterious magic-filled black suitcase given to Dr. Max Brodny in Moscow in 1959)
 

Kishinev

"Catastrophe and the Contemporary Jewish Imagination: The 1903 Kishinev Pogrom as Fact and Fiction", Steven J. Zipperstein

Stan Lee ע״ה

Yuval Levin

"In Search of Solidarity in the Age of Trump"

Vidui

"The Power of Confession", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Vida

Baby iguanas feed on lettuce

Sabbath

"Sabbath in a Time of Unrest", Judith Shulevitz

Iémen

"Yemen Blues", Jat Mahibathi

 "Golden Autumn", Isaac Levitan

Kristallnacht

A Jewish-run shop in Berlin after being vandalized and covered with anti-Semitic graffiti (November 10, 1938)

Kindertransport

Jewish Kindertransport children arriving in London (February, 1939)

Emoção

"Religious Emotion", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Vida

Two pairs of spinner dolphins mating in the Red Sea, Egypt

Paula Fredrikson

"When does Christianity Begin?"

Aaron Copland

"The Promise of Living"

Ferrara

Hassidismo

 

Wooden spring balanced figure of a Hasidic Jew that sways as if davening. 

This balancing figure is one of the more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection 

of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials, Poland (19th century)

Tempo

"Shabbat & The Holidays - A Tale of Two Astronauts", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Yoram Hazony

"The Virtue of Nationalism"

Vida

Crise

"Not your Parents' Crisis", Rabbi Jonathan Sacks & Jonathan Haidt

I observed all the happenings beneath the sun, and I found that all is futile and pursuit of wind:
A twisted thing that cannot be made straight, a lack that cannot be made good.

Koheleth 1:14-16

Kaddish

Chazzan Chaim Adler, Tel-Aviv's Great Synagogue (2008)

Túmulo dos Patriarcas

Cave of Machpelah

John Podhoretz

"Movies, TV, and American Popular Culture"

Eliseu

"Elisha and the Shunammite Woman", Hans Collaert (1643)

Vida

Two hippopotamuses are fed pumpkins at Hanoi zoo, Vietnam

Anti-Judaísmo

"Anti-Judaism", David Nirenberg

Pittsburgh

"Yizkor", David Stock

"El male rah'amim", Max Helfman 

Pittsburgh

Tammy Hepps, Kate Rothstein and her daughter, Simone Rothstein, 16, pray from a prayerbook a block away from the site of a mass shooting 
at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood on October 27, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 

Tashlich

UN Chief Antonio Guterres and Israeli ambassador Danny Danon take part in a Tashlich ritual in New York on Friday September 7, 2018 

David

 "King David Playing the Harp", Gerard van Honthorst (1656)

Sucot

"The Eternal Lulav and Etrog"

Jonah Goldberg

"What is Conservatism?"

Vida

Barnacle geese

Kurt Waldheim

"The Waldheim Waltz" - Trailer

Yuval Levin

"The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left" (2013)

Tashlich

Chasidic Jews performing Tashlich on Rosh HaShanah, placed on the banks of the Vistula River in Warsaw, Aleksander Gierymski (1884)

Judaísmo

"World Religions: Spotlight on Judaism", with David Biale & Susannah Heschel

Brasil

A 17th century mikveh found in historic Salvador region thought to be country’s oldest evidence of Jewish presence

Philippe Sands

"East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity"

Vida

 

A male Qinling golden snub-nosed monkey rests on a stone, joined by a female from his group

Lecha Dodi

"Lecha Dodi", Cantor Chaim Adler (1968)

"Noah gives Thanks for Deliverance", Domenico Morelli (1901)

América

"Contesting American Values", Jonathan Israel

Oliver Sacks

"On Ripe Bananas"

Steven Weinberg

"To Explain the World" (2015)

Argélia

Women making carpets, Algiers

Rei

"God as "King"?", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Vida

A lesser thorn-tipped longhorn beetle resting on leaf, Tipperary, Ireland

Roman Vishniac

“Grandfather and Granddaughter, Warsaw" (1930's)

Jerusalém

An illustration of the opening of the Jerusalem train station (1892)

Simon Schama

"The Story of the Jews", Cambridge Union (2017)

 

Israel

 "Catch ’67: The Ideas Behind the Arguments That Tear Israel Apart", Micah Goodman

Jerusalém

Earliest known stone carving of Hebrew word ‘Jerusalem’ found near city entrance.

Unearthed in what was an artisan’s village 2.5 km from ancient Temple, 

inscribed column from 100 BCE features Aramaic, Hebrew, two of the languages used by Jerusalemites of the era.

Artur Schnabel

Complete Impromptus D. 899 & 935, Schubert (1950)

Vida

A fieldfare takes flight in Ivanovo, Russia

"Woman with Child in Crib", Chaim Goldberg (ca. 1990)

Yom Kippur

"Yom Kippur - The Nature of Man", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

They were arguing in the Academy of Heaven.

Bava Metzia 86a

Super-Homem

 

The cover of "The Joe Shuster Story: The Artist Behind Superman" by Julian Voloj and illustrated by Thomas Campi

Walter Laqueur

"On the Future of Europe"

John Zorn

"Between Two Worlds"

Vida

 

A young Bengal tigress crosses the water towards a narrow bank in Rajbagh Lake, India

Franz Kafka

"A Hunger Artist", Franz Kafka (audio)

Ben Gurion

"Ben Gurion's Leadership", Anita Shapira (2013)

Marceline Loridan-Ivens ע״ה

Walter Laqueur ע״ה

Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eyes were undimmed and his freshness unabated.

Deuteronomy 34:7

Rosh Hashanah

"Sacred Time: Rosh Hashanah - Creation and Parenthood", Rabbi Meir Soloveichik (2)

Vida